bewail many which have sinned already,13 and have not repented of the uncleanness and" fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed. CHAP. XIII, 1 He threateneth severity, and the power of his apostleship against obstinate sinners: 5 and advising them to a trial of their faith, 7 and to a reformation of their sins before his coming, 11 he concludeth his epistle with a general exhortation and a prayer. THIS is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. с b e 2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have. sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, 'I will not spare : 3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ 18 before. Pu. speaking would not come again to you in heaviness. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you. m 2 COR. xiii. 2: REу. ii. 21: And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. " 1 COR. v. 1: It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife, a 2 COR. xii. 14. CHAP. XIII, b NUMB. XXXV. 30: Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die. See on MAT. xviii. 16. C2 COR. x. 2: I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present. d2 COR. i. 15: In this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit. 2 COR. xii. 21. See on 2 Cor. i. 23. MAT. x. 20: It is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. 1 Cor. v. 4: In the in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.1 4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For k 1 we also are weak in him,2 but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. m 5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, "how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates ?4 Iamong you. Ham. 2 with him. A. V. 3 among you. Ham. approved. Dod. 4 * dis name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Cor. ii. 10: To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ. h1 COR. ix. 2: If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. i 'PHI. ii. 7, 8: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 1 PET. iii. 18: Being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit. ROM. vi. 4: We are buried with him by baptism into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 12 COR. x.3, 4: Though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds.) m See on 1 Cor. xi. 28. "ROм. viii. 10: And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. GAL. iv. 19: My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you. : 1 COR. ix. 27: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. 2 TIM. iii. 8: Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. 5 6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates. 7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, 6 P though we be as reprobates. 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. r 9 For we are glad,' when we are weak, and ye are strong and this also we wish, even your perfection. 10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present "I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. 11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be "perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. 5 6 for. Rh. pray P2 COR. vi. 9: As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live. 4 PRO. xxi. 30: There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD. S 2 COR. xii. 5, 9, 10. See on 1 COR. ii. 3. 1 THES. iii. 10: Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith? HEB. vi. 1: Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God. See 2 COR. xii. 21. See on 2 COR. i. 23. TIT. i. 13: Rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith. 2 COR. x. 8: Our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction. w See on ver. 9. * See on JOHN, xvii. 11. See on MARK, ix. 50. * See on Roм. XV. 33. 12" Greet one another with an holy kiss. 9 с 14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and b the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas. See on ROм. xvi. 16. 9 favour. Dod. Roм. xvi. 24: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. PHI. ii. 1: If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit. THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE Calatians. ST. PAUL preached in Galatia in the year 51 (ACTS, xvi. 6), and, afterwards, in 53, or 54 (ACTS, xviii. 23); and he found there considerable churches. Not long after St. Paul had converted the Galatians to the belief of the Gospel, some Judaizing Christians endeavoured, with considerable success, to persuade them of the necessity of being circumcised, and of observing the law of Moses. The object of this epistle was to counteract the impression made by these false teachers, and to re-establish the Galatians in the true Christian faith and practice. It is generally believed this epistle was written from Corinth or Ephesus in the latter part of A, D. 52, or the beginning of the following year. CHAP. I. 6 He wondereth that they have so soon left him and the Gospeli 8 and accurseth those that preach any other Gospel than he did : 11 he learned the Gospel not of men, but of God: 14 and showeth what he was before his calling, 17 and what he did presently ufter it. A. D. 58. PAUL, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;2) 2 And all the brethrend which are with me, e unto the churches of Galatia : 3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, 4 Who gave himself for our sins, that ye 1 from. Ham. Pu. 2 from death. Ma. Cr. ACTs, ix. 6, 15: And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel. do. xxii. 10, 15, 21: And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said unto me, Arise, and go into Damascus ; and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do. For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard. And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. do. xxvi. 16: But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee. TIT. i. 3: Which [word] is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour. See on ACTs, ii. 24. d PHI. ii. 22: He [Timotheus] hath served with me in the Gospel. do. iv. 21: The brethren which are with me greet you. e ACTs, xvi. 6: Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia. do. xviii. 23: And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples. 1 COR. xvi. 1: As I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. 12 JOHN, 3: Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. See on Roм. i. 7. See on ROм. iv. 25. |