THESSALONICA. 4/3 
with labour and travel, night and day, that we chap. 
MIGHT NOT BE CHARGEABLE TO ANY OF YOU'." > . .y ' 
The major part of the Thesscdonians of the present 
day, that is to say, the Jeivs, are precisely the 
sort of men to be influenced by such a style ot 
persuasion ; and there is not one of them whose 
way of life does not afford a reasonable com- 
ment upon this passage of St. Paul. It was in 
the Jeivish synagogue, both in Thessalonica and at 
Bercea, that the first promulgation of the Chris- 
tian tenets was delivered to the inhabitants of 
those cities ; therefore to visit the identical spot 
where St. Paul preached (which has always 
been an object of inquiry and curiosity among 
the Christians of Salonka), instead of repairing 
to the churches which were erected so long 
afterwards, attention should be directed towards 
the places of Jewish worship ; especially as the 
rigid adherence of the /ew;.? to all their antient 
customs, and to their old resorts for purposes 
of spiritual and temporal occupation, has ever 
been invariable ^ 
(2) Thess. iii. 7, 8. 
(3) Dapper says, that the Jews of Salonica have thirty-six great 
synagogues, without including in that nuinlier any of the smaller ones. 
Voyage D^script. des Isles, &c. par Dripper, p. 347. Amst. 1703. 
