in which Apollos, after his arrival in Achaia, fixed his refidence'; for, proceeding with the account of St. Paul's travels, it tells us, that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having paffed through the upper coafts, came down to Ephesus (xix. 1). What is faid therefore of Apollos, in the epiftle, coincides exactly, and especially in the point of chronology, with what is delivered concerning him in the history. The only queftion now is, whether the allufions were made with a regard to this coincidence. Now, the occafions and purposes for which the name of Apollos is introduced in the Acts and in the epiftles, are so independent and so remote, that it is impoffible to discover the fmalleft reference from one to the other. Apollos is mentioned in the Acts, in immediate connection with the history of Aquila and Prifcilla, and for the very fingular circumstance of his "knowing only the baptifm of John." In the epiftle, where none of these circumftances are taken notice of, his name firft occurs, for the purpose of reproving the contentious fpirit of the Corinthians; and it occurs only in conjunction G 2

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'you faith, I am of Paul and I of Apollos, “and I of Cephas, and I of Chrift." The fecond paffage in which Apollos appears, "I have planted, Apollos watered," fixes, as we have obferved, the order of time amongst three diftin&t events; but it fixes this, I will venture to pronounce, without the writer perceiving that he was doing any fuch thing. The fentence fixes this order in exact conformtiy with the history; but it is itself introduced folely for the fake of the reflection which follows: "Neither is he "that planteth any thing, neither he that wa"tereth, but God that giveth the increase."

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No. VI.

Chap. iv. ver. 11, 12. "Even unto this

present hour we both hunger and thirst, " and are naked, and are buffeted, and have "no certain dwelling-place; and labour, "working with our own hands."

We are exprefsly told, in the history, that at Corinth St. Paul laboured with his own hands: "He found Aquila and Prifcilla; and, "because he was of the fame craft, he abode

"with them, and wrought; for by their oc"cupation they were tent-makers." But, in the text before us, he is made to say, that "he laboured even unto the present hour," that is, to the time of writing the epistle at Ephefus. Now, in the narration of St. Paul's transactions at Ephefus, delivered in the nineteenth chapter of the Acts, nothing is faid of his working with his own hands; but in the twentieth chapter we read, that upon his return from Greece, he fent for the elders of the church of Ephefus, to meet him at Miletus; and in the difcourfe which he there addreffed to them, amidst fome other reflections which he calls to their remembrance, we find the following: "I "have coveted no man's filver, or gold, òr “apparel; yea, you yourselves also know, “that these hands have miniftered unto my "neceffities, and to them that were with me." The reader will not forget to remark, that though St. Paul be now at Miletus, it is to the elders of the church of Ephesus he is speaking, when he says, "Ye yourselves "know that these hands have miniftered to 66 my neceffities ;" and that the whole dif

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working with our own hands." The correfpondency is fufficient then, as to the undefignedness of it. It is manifest to my judgment, that if the hiftory, in this article, had been taken from the epiftle, this circumftance, if it appeared at all, would have appeared in its place, that is, in the direct account of St. Paul's tranfactions at Ephefus. The correspondency would not have been effected, as it is, by a kind of reflected ftroke, that is, by a reference in a fubfequent speech, to what in the narrative was omitted. Nor is it likely, on the other hand, that a circumftance which is not extant in the history of St. Paul at Ephefus, fhould have been made the subject of a factitious allusion,

in an epiftle purporting to be written by him from that place: not to mention that the allufion itself, efpecially as to time, is too oblique and general to answer any purpose of forgery whatever.

No. VII.

Chap. ix. ver. 20.

"And unto the Jews "I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, "as under the law."

We have the difpofition here described, exemplified in two inftances which the hiftory records; one, Acts xvi. ver. 3: "Him (Timothy) would Paul have to go forth "with him, and took and circumcised him, because of the Jews in thofe quarters; for

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they knew all that his father was a Greek," This was before the writing of the epiftle. The other, Acts xxi. ver. 23, 26, and after the writing of the epiftle: "Do this that we

fay to thee; we have four men which have "a vow on them: them take, and purify thyfelf with them, that they may shave "their heads; and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed con

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