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1818 Feb. 9 Not Paul I Argument
1818 Feb. 9

Not Paul

I Argument

Ch. Motives to Conversion

Money &c craved

Service

At the close of this Epistle viz. from verse the 9 th to verse the 21., we have variety of anecdotes concerning adherents past as well as present, we have variety of anecdotes

II. Tim. iv. 9 to 21

1 Apostate, one more, viz. Demas. His offence was - loving the present world: in plain language not loving Paul’s service. Next but one /In the next Epistle/, viz. in his Epistle /the one/ to Philemon, of four persons named /stiled/ by Paul his fellow labourers, Demas is one. Either this was not the same Demas or if the same he acted the last as well as the first part of the prodigal son, or the Epistle to Philemon &c though in the book placed last was in the order of time written before that second /this/ Epistle to Timotheus.

2. Envoys mentioned as sent - Crescens to Galatia; Titus to Dalmatia; Tychicus to Ephesus.

3. Envoy recalled, Mark.

4. Adherents /Retainers/ /Residents/ left at different places - Erastus at Corinth; Trophimus at Miletum (Miletus) on account of sickness. In | | we have seen Erastus in that city, and stiled Chamberlain of it, yet in attendance on Paul in other places. For a time at least this office of his, whatever it was, must therefore have been a Sinecure: an argument this - nor let it pass unimproved[?] - for proving the divine right of Sinecures.

Behold here - and where else will be found so good an one? - an argument for Sinecures.

5. Persons to be saluted - Prisca and Aquila (the married pair, his old friends and partners in the tentmaking trade): a and the household of Onesiphorus.

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6. Persons sending the like compliments 1. Eubulus; 2 Pudens; 3. Linus; 4. Claudia; 5. All the brethren. As it says not all the other brethren, it looks as if the persons thus specially named were in relation to the company thus lumped together without distinction of name, persons of rank say in the language of the time and place elders, occupying situations in the official establishment.
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