making for the poor saints at
Jerusalem; and, in pursuance
of this design, he sets out for
Troas.

In his way thither, or as soon 1 Tim. i.
as he came there, I suppose, he 20.
delivered Hymenæus and Alex-
ander to Satan, that they might
learn not to reproach the gospel
of Christ. Soon after he came
to Troas he writes his first
Cor. Epistle to Timothy. Here a
xii. door was opened of the Lord 2 Cor. ii.
12. unto him.

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.
the good news of the Corin-
thians' repentance, and obedi-
ence to his former letter; which
refreshes his heart.

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.
Corinthians, just before he went 14. xiii. 1.
to them: in which he excuses ix. 4.
his not coming to them, though)
he had often promised, and in-
tended it, lest he should have
found them in a temper which
would have made their meeting
very uneasy to them both;
commends their obedience to
his former letter; exhorts them
to a liberal contribution; and
threatens great severity to the
false apostle, and such of his
faction as should still continue
obstinate and impenitent; and
assures them, that now he finds
the greater part in such a tem-
per, that he might visit them
without using his apostolical

This epistle was probably written from Macedonia. See" Arrange

ment of the New Testament," vol. ii, page 324.

2

power against them, he would
instantly come.

Having received the contri-
butions of Macedonia, 2 Cor.
viii. 1-6, which were liberal,
2 Cor. viii. 1-5, he goes from
Ver. Macedonia to Greece, to receive
3. the like contributions there, and
to confirm the disciples. This
is the second time that Paul
might say he had preached the
gospel from Jerusalem unto Il-
lyricum, as he does, Rom. xv.
19; Greece bordering on Illy-
ricum.

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
way, he returns from Corinth,
through Greece and Macedonia,
to Asia, and from thence by
sea to Jerusalem. In order
thereunto,

Acts From the other parts of Ma-
xx.6. cedonia he comes to Philippi,
and stays there during the days
of unleavened bread.

Ibid.

There accompanied him out
of Greece the messengers of the
several churches, who were
joined with him in carrying
their contributions (which were
very considerable) to the poor
saints at Jerusalem, he being
unwilling to take them upon
himself alone, 1 Cor. viii.
20, 21, xvi. 3, 2 Cor. viii. Acts xx. 2
20-23. These messengers-6.
were Sopater of Berea (or the
Berean messenger), Aristarchus
and Secundus of Thessalonica
(or the Thessalonian messen-
gers), Gaius of Derbe (i. e. of a
family of Derbe, but born in
Macedonia, Acts xix. 20, and
living at Corinth, 1 Cor. i. 14,
Rom. xvi. 23), and Timothy
(the Corinthian messengers);
and of Asia, Tychicus and Tro-
phimus (or the Asian messen-
gers). Luke seems to have been
chosen of all the churches for
this purpose, 2 Cor. viii. 18, 19. Ver. 4.
All these messengers, except

Luke, went before Paul to
Troas, and staid there for him ;
and a little after Paul goes
with Luke from Philippi thither,

and abode there seven days. Ver. 7.
On the first day of the week
Paul preaches till midnight, and
Eutychus falls out of a window
asleep three stories high; is
taken up for dead, but restored
to life by Paul.

Ver. From hence he went to Assos
14. on foot, and came to Mytilene,

Paul's five apostolic journies.

An. Dom.

Places whither
they went.

How often Paul had
been there after his
conversion.

Proofs of the time
and place.

Their most remarkable

Transactions.

Proofs of the

Transactions.

3 58 Trogyllium, Miletus in Asia.

Coos.

xx.

Acts sailed thence, came over-against
Chios, arrived at Samos, tarried
14. at Trogyllium, and the next day
Ibid. came to Miletus. This he did,
Ver. having hired a ship to carry
15. himself, the messengers, and
Ibid. the contributions; and which
Ibid. therefore attended him at these
Ibid. places.

And being desirous to see the
elders of Ephesus, and being
withal pressed in time (intend-
ing to be at Jerusalem by the
feast), he would not go to
Ephesus, but sends for the el-
ders of that church hither. In
his charge to them, he says,

"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.

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way to

Jerusa lem.

Acts

7.

bis converting the eunuch, Acts Acts xxi.
viii. 40.
10.

Agabus comes down from Ver. 11.
Judea, and foretells by the
Spirit, that Paul would be
bound by the Jews at Jerusa-
lem, and delivered to the Gen-
tiles. But Paul being unmoved
at the prospect of danger, they
took carriages (which were ne-
cessary to carry their contribu-
tions), and went to Jerusalem,
ver. 15.

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