1818 Feb 9

Not Paul

I. Argument

Motives to Conversion

§ Money &c craving

§. Services &c received

12. Epistle to Titus. Written from Nicopolis in Macedonia

Salutations general - none special none

1. Envoys mentioned as about to be sent, Artemas or else Tychicus

2. Adherents ordered by Paul to be brought /conveyed/ /sent forward/ a to him by this his Cabinet Minister Zenas and Apollos. On a former /a succeeding/ occasion we have seen /shall see/ an /this/ Apollos figuring in the character of a rival of Paul’s, acting /stationed/ on equal ground: if it were /this was/ the same Apollos, his vortex[?] must by /before/ this time have been swallowed up in that of Paul.

a Instead of send forward (προπεμψον) the translation has it bring.

As to Zenas his title of lawyer if by lawyer his description in the original (νομικος) is rightly translated, speaks not much in his favour. In his first Epistle to the Corinthians b we shall see /we have seen/ our Paul making it matter of accusation /condemnation/ to his adherents in that place that instead of settling disputes by arbitration among themselves, they had the temerity /dared/ to go to law. If In the revelations alledged by him to have been received there had been nothing worse than this they would have remained unquestioned for any thing /attempt/ that would have been made by this pen /from this hand/ to question them.

b I. Cor. vi. 1 to 7. ‘Dare any of you &c’

Tit. iii. 11. 12. Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

12. When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis; for I have determined there to winter.