making for the poor saints at In his way thither, or as soon 1 Tim. i. 12 1 But, not finding Titus there, Acts he went from thence into Ma 12. xx.1.cedonia, to find him: finds him 2 Cor. vii. there, and from him receives 5, 6. While in Macedonia, Paul 2 Cor. viii. sends Titus, Luke, and another 6-16--18. brother, to Corinth, to forward the collections; and by them sends his second Epistle to the 2 Cor. xii. This epistle was probably written from Macedonia. See" Arrange ment of the New Testament," vol. ii, page 324. 2 power against them, he would Having received the contri- Acts From the other parts of Greece Paul goes to Corinth, having Timothy with him, who, by this time, was come to him from Ephesus. Hearing there that there was danger lest the Romans, who most likely had been converted by Jews, that went thither on some of the persecutions (perhaps by Junia, and Andronicus, his kinsmen, whom he salutes, Rom. xvi. 7), should be carried too far into Jewish sentiments by those Jewish believers, who, it may be, were not fully instructed in the gospel of the Gentiles, and might easily overvalue their law, he writes the Epistle to the Romans, to prove, by various arguments, that no man (no Jew, much less a Gentile) could possibly be justified by any thing but faith in Christ, or obedience to his gospel. This Rom. xv. epistle he sends from Corinth; 23. and sends it by Phabe, a ser-2 Tim. iv. vant of the church of Cenchrea. 20. This epistle he wrote just as he 1 Cor. i. was going from Corinth to Je-14. rusalem, to carry the contribu-Rom. xvi. tions to the saints. 1. His intention was to sail from Rom. xv. xx.6. Corinth to Syria, in his way to 31. Jerusalem; but finding the Jews laid in wait for him that Acts From the other parts of Ma- Ibid. There accompanied him out Luke, went before Paul to and abode there seven days. Ver. 7. Ver. From hence he went to Assos Paul's five apostolic journies. An. Dom. Places whither How often Paul had Proofs of the time Their most remarkable Transactions. Proofs of the Transactions. 3 58 Trogyllium, Miletus in Asia. Coos. xx. Acts sailed thence, came over-against And being desirous to see the "That the Holy Ghost had Acts xx. made them bishops" ('ETIOк6-21-28. TOvs), and declares, That he " had testified' faith and repen tance both to Jews and Greeks; that the Holy Ghost witnessed, Ver. 23. saying, that in every city bonds and afflictions awaited him; that he goes up, bound in the Ver. 22. Spirit, to Jerusalem, and that they should see his face no more:" sets sail towards JeruActs salem: sails near Coos and xxi. Rhodes: takes another ship at Patara: goes ashore at Tyre. There disciples said to Paul, Ibid. by the Spirit, that he should Acts xxi. Ver. not go up to Jerusalem, i. e. 4. dissuaded him from it, because they foresaw by the Spirit that he would meet with great trouble, and be in danger of his life there. Rhodes. Patara in 1. Ibid. 3. VOL. I. 3 58 way to Jerusa lem. Acts 7. bis converting the eunuch, Acts Acts xxi. Agabus comes down from Ver. 11. There accompanied Paul thi-Ver. 16, xxi. ther certain disciples of Cæsarea; 17. and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, "an old disciple," with whom they should lodge. When Paul and the messengers of the churches were come to Jerusalem, they were received gladly by the brethren; particularly on account of the great alms, which Paul had with much labour and care collected, and now, with the other messengers, brought for the poor saints at Jerusalem. The collecting and bringing these alms at this time to Jerusalem seems to have been done with a design, 1. to show James that Paul was mindful of the agreement made between the apostles of the heathen and James and two other of the apostles of the circumcision, at Jerusalem, an. 49, an account of which we have, Gal. ii. 9, 10. 2. To show the Jewish saints at Jerusalem that the idolatrous Gentiles who believed considered them as one with themselves in Christ Jesus; were willing to pay the debt of temporal things they had contracted by receiving the spiritual things of the Jews, as St. Paul speaks, Rom. xv. 26, 27; and were desirous to provoke the Jewish |