1818 Feb. 7

Not Paul

I Argument

Ch Motives to Conversion

§ 2 Love of Money’s worth

§. 3. 2 Services various

§. 3. Service in various expensive shapes claimed and received and claimed

1. Acts xv. 39. 40. 39. And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed on to Cyprus:

40. And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto y e grace of God Chose Silas: viz: out of an unspecified number unspecified whom he had equally at his command.

2. Acts xvii. 14. 15. 14. and then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go (from Berea Acts xvii. 10.) as it were to the sea: but Silas & Timotheus abode there still.

15. And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas & Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed. Number[?] unspecified, unlimited, note here his attendants.

3. Acts xix. 22. So he sent into Macedonia (viz. from Ephesus {Acts xix. 1. 17. &c.}) two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; { but} he himself staid in Asia (viz. at Ephesus ib. 23 to 29) for a season.

4. Acts xix. 29. ‘And the whole city being stirred up /excited against Paul/ by the makers of silver shrines for the temple of Diana) ‘was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.’

Here then at Ephesus, the two here mentioned are but so many out of a greater number the amount of which is not mentioned: and of these two Timotheus was brought by him from Derbe or Lystra in Lycaonia: a very considerable distance a to Ephesus at which place Paul had already made a stay of more (it is not easy to say /it appears not exactly/ how much more) than 2 years and three months (Acts xix 1. 8. 10.)

In the persons of this Gaius and this Aristarchus we have /see/ two other persons living with him also at Ephesus and under the name of travelling companions forming part of his sect[?] /household establishment/ after having been brought or come thither from Macedonia. b

a state how much from the map.

b State here the distance.