purpose, faith, long-suffering, charity, patience. Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me, iii. 10, 11. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds, Heb. xii. 3. b Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 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, 1 Cor. xi. 24-27. Not as A. D. GO. a Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity: but his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Again, when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless, if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned: also thou hast delivered thy soul, Ezek. iii. 17-21. Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: If, when he seeth the sword come upon the eBut the Lord said unto him, Goland, he blow the trumpet, and warn thy way for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel, Acts ix. 15. though I had already attained, either were already perfect but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, Phil. iii. 12-14. For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing, 2 Tim. iv. 6-8. d See on Matt. iv. ver. 23. clause 3. VER. 25. Καὶ νῦν ἰδοῦ, ἐγὼ οἶδα ὅτι οὐκ ἔτι č↓eo de tò #góowπóv pov imeïs návres, iv εἷς διῆλθον κηρύσσων τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ. And now, behold, I know that ye all among whom I have gone preaching the people; Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet and taketh not warning: if the sword come and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning, his blood shall be upon him: but be that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me. When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will 1 require at thine hand. Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul, xxxiii. 2-9. c a Take heed therefore unto yourselves, band to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the Church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 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, 1 Cor. ix. 25-27. And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it, Col. iv. 17. Meditate upon these things; give thy A. D. 60. self wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee, 1 Tim. iv. 15, 16. b He shall feed his flock like a shepherd; he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young, Isa. xl. 11. But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eyes shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away captive, Jer. xiii. 17. Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock that was given thee, thy beautiful flock? 20. Hear the word of the LoRD, Ο ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him as a shepherd doth his flock, xxxi. 10. And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are Lord GOD, Ezek. xxxiv. 31. Feed thy men, and I am your God, saith the people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old, Mic. vii. 14. Fear ther's good pleasure to give you the not, little flock; for it is your Fakingdom, Juke xii. 32. The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away, 1 Pet. v. 1-4. As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul, for the work whereunto I have called them, Acts xiii. 2. Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will, 1 Cor. xii. 3—11. d He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheep-folds : From following the ewes great with young, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands, Psal. lxxviii. 70-72. And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding, Jer. iii. 15. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep, John xxi. 16. See on Matt. xx. ver. 28. clauses 5, 4. Ἐγὼ γὰρ οἶδα τοῦτο, ὅτι εἰσελεύσονται μετὰ τὴν ἄφιξίν μου λύκοι βαρεῖς εἰς ὑμᾶς, μὴ φειδόμενοι τοῦ ποιμνίου. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. a See on Matt. vii. ver. 15. VER. 30. Καὶ ἐξ ὑμῶν αὐτῶν ἀναστήσονται ἄνδρες λαλοῦντες διεστραμμένα, τοῦ ἀποσπαν τοὺς μαθητὲς ὀπίσω αὐτῶν. aAlso of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, bto draw away disciples after them. But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable here A. D. 60. sies, even denying the Lord that b See on Matt. xxiv. ver. 5. And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, a which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them C which are sanctified. a But ye, beloved, building up your selves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Jude 20. bTo open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God; that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified, by faith that is in me, Acts xxvi. 18. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the A. D. 60. ACTS XX. 32-38.-xx. 1-3. glory of his inheritance in the saints, Eph. i. 18. Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, Col. i. 12. Knowing, that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ, Col. iii. 24. And for this cause he is the Mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance, Heb. ix. 15. For they that say such things, declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned: But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city, xi. 1416. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 1 Pet. i. 34. See on Luke i. ver. 75. Αὐτοὶ δὲ γινώσκετε ὅτι ταῖς χρείαις μου καὶ τοῖς οὖσι μετ ̓ ἐμοῦ ὑπηρέτησαν αἱ χεῖρες αὗται. A. D. 60. weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is the more blessed to give than to receive. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth, Eph. iv. 28. Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that ed, support the weak, be patient toare unruly, comfort the feeble-mindward all men, 1 Thess. v. 14. b See on Matt. v. ver. 42. clause 1. VER. 36. Καὶ ταῦτα εἰπὼν, θεὶς τὰ γόνατα αὐτ τοῦ, σὺν πᾶσιν αὐτοῖς προσηύξατο. And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all. VER. 37. Ικανὸς δὲ ἐγένετο κλαυθμὸς πάντων· καὶ ἐπιπεσόντες ἐπὶ τὸν τράχηλον τοῦ Παύλου, κατεφίλουν αὐτόν· And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him, VER. 38.. Ὀδυνώμενοι μάλιστα ἐπὶ τῷ λόγῳ ο εἰ ρήκει, ὅτι οὐκέτι μέλλουσι τὸ πρόσωπον αὐ τοῦ θεωρεῖν· προέπεμπον δὲ αὐτὸν εἰς τὸ whole. Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship. CHAP. XXI.--VER. 1. Ως δὲ ἐγένετο ἀναχθῆναι ἡμᾶς ἀποσπασ θέντας ἀπ' αὐτῶν, εὐθυδρομήσαντες ἦλθο μεν εἰς τὴν Κῶν, τῇ δὲ ἑξῆς εἰς τὴν ̔Ρόδον, κἀκεῖθεν εἰς Πάταρα. And it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had launched, we a Yea, ye yourselves know, that these came with a straight course unto Coos, hands have ministered unto my necessi-and the day following unto Rhodes, and ties, and to them that were with me. from thence unto Patara: See on chap. xviii. ver. 3. VER. 35. Πάντα ὑπέδειξα ὑμῖν, ὅτι οὕτω κοπιῶν τας δεῖ ἀντιλαμβάνεσθαι τῶν ἀσθενούντων, μmμLOVEVELY TE TV Móyov Tou Kupiou 'Insou, ὅτι αὐτὸς εἶπε· Μακάριόν ἐστι διδόναι μᾶλλον ἢ λαμβάνειν. I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the VER. 2. Καὶ εὑρόντες πλοῖον διαπερῶν εἰς Φοινίκην, ἐπιβάντες ἀνήχθημεν. And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth. VER. 3. ̓Αναφάνεντες δὲ τὴν Κύπρον, καὶ καταλιπόντες αὐτὴν εὐώνυμον, ἐπλέομεν εἰς Συ A. D. 60. of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him. a But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through, he preached in all the cities, till he came to Cæsarea, Acts viii. 40. VER. 9. Τούτῳ δὲ ἦσαν θυγατέρες παρθένοι τέσ σαρες προφητεύουσαι. And the same man had four daughters, virgins, a which did prophesy. a See on chap. xiii. ver. 1. VER. 10. Επιμενόντων δὲ ἡμῶν ἡμέρας πλείους, κατῆλθέ τις ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰουδαίας προφήτης, ὀνόματι Αγαβας. And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaa " a certain prophet, named Agabus. a And there stood up one of them, named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Cæsar, Acts xi. 28. VER. 11. Καὶ ἐλθὼν πρὸς ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἄρας τὴν ζώνην τοῦ Παύλου, δήσας τε αὐτοῦ τὰς χεῖρας καὶ τοὺς πόδας, εἶπε· Τάδε λέγει τὸ Πνεῦ μα τὸ ἅγιον· Τὸν ἄνδρα, οὗ ἐστιν ἡ ζώνη αὕτη, οὕτω δήσουσιν ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ οἱ Ἰου δαῖοι, καὶ παραδώσουσιν εἰς χεῖρας ἐθνῶν. And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, a Thus saith the Holy Ghost, b Su shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles, a See on chap. viii. ver. 29. And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned, Acts xxii. 25. He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him : wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him, But after two years, Porcius Festus came into Felix' room and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound, χχίν. 36, 37. For |