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dient, by word and deed, through mighty signs and wonders, 

 kv (hva/iei oTjue'iov kul reparojv, by the power of the Spirit of God ; 

 so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Ulyricum, 1 

 have fully preached the gospel of Christ." K.om. 15 : 18, 19. 



" Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you 

 in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds," 

 iv •.rjueioig kul ripaat kul dwufzeau* 2 Cor. 12 : 12. 



These words, signs, wonders, and mighty deeds, arjfieia, koi 

 Tepara, teat dwauecc, are the specific appropriate term.s through- 

 out the New Testament, em.ployed when public sensible 

 miracles are intended to be expressed. This will appear by 

 consulting, among other places, the texts referred to in the 

 note ;t and it cannot be shown that they are ever employed 

 to express any thing else. 



Secondly, these words not only denote miracles as op 

 posed to natural effects, but they denote visible, and what 

 may be called external miracles, as distinguished, 



First, from inspiration. If St. Paul had meant to refe, 

 only to secret illuminations of his understanding, or secret in 

 fluences upon his will or affections, he could not, with truth 

 have represented them as " signs and wonders ivroicght b) 



* To these may be added the following indirect allusions, which — 

 though if they had stood alone, that is, without plainer texts in the 

 same writings, they might have been accounted dubious : yet, when 

 considered in conjunction with the passage.5 already cited — can hardly 

 receive any other interpretation than that which we give them. 



"My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words ol 

 man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that 

 your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power ol 

 God." 1 Cor. 2 : 4, 5. 



"The gospel, whereof I was made a minister, accordmg to the gift 

 of the grace of God given unto nie by the eflectual working of bis 

 power." Ephes. 3 : 6, 7. 



"For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the cir- 

 cumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles." G al. 2 : 8. 



"For our gospel cam.e not unto you in word only, but also in power, 

 and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance." 1 Thess. 1 : 5. 



tMarkl6:20; Luke23:8; John2 : 11-23 , 3 : 2; 4:48-54; 11.49, 

 5:12; 6:8; 7: 16; 14:3; 15: 12; Heb. 2:4. 



