1818 Feb. 7

Not Paul

I Argument

Ch Motives to Conversion

§ Proof of Money craving

Services &c. received

So much for the present as to Timotheus: Timotheus to whom two of his Epistles are addressed, who with Titus also epistolized appear to have been his two right-hand men, remaining with him and serving him in various /a variety/ of capacities - Secretaries, Assistants, Envoys, or Residents to the last.

As to Erastus who is he? Paul himself shall /has/ inform us: a man of /belonging/ Corinth: a man in office there, no less an office than that rendered in the English translation Chamberlain of the city from the Greek ο οικονομος In his letter to the Romans written from Corinth (Rom xvi 23) Erastus, the chamberlain of the City’ (says he) saluteth you. This Erastus (if it be really the same Erastus as the person of that name mentioned in the Acts) had from Corinth the place to which he belonged gone to attend /pay attendance/ on Paul at Ephesus and at the time of writing this letter to Rome from Corinth was then returned to that place of his ordinary residence.

Moreover as to Gaius who is he? In this same Epistle of Paul to his /the/ Romans and in the same verse in which we have seen mention made of Erastus, he is mentioned as being a housekeeper at Corinth and having Paul for his inmate. ‘Mine host’ (ξενος μου) is the appellative by which the relation is designated.