25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I 'suffered Acts 14.19. shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; s Acts 27.41. t Acts 9. 23. 14.5.& 17. 21. 31. & 23. 5. & 20. 3. & 10, 11. & 25. 3. Acts 14.5. & 19. 23. x Acts 20. 31. ch. 6. 5. y 1 Cor. 4. 11. 7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a 'thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Sen Satan to buffet me, lest I should be ex- 43 alted above measure. 26 In journeyings often, in perils of 8 For this thing I besought the Lord 27 In weariness and painfulness, 20. 18, &c. Rom. 1. 14. a 1 Cor. 8. 13. & 9.22. b ch. 12. 5, 9, 10. e Rom. 1.9. & 9. 1. ch. 29" Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not? 50 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine in firmities. d 31 The God and Father of our Lord 1. 23. Gal. Jesus Christ, which is blessed for everknoweth that I lie not. 1.2. 2.5 Thes. more, 32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me: 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands. 4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, Or, possible. which it is not lawful for a man to 10 Therefore I take pleasure in in- 15 firmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. a ch. IL ↳ 11 I am become "a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in G2 & 3 nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing. 81589 Epd. 35. iss 12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds. ch.4116 13 For what is it wherein ye were 4 inferior to other churches, except it be st Car & that I myself was not burdensome to th you? forgive me this wrong. 14 "Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's, C but you: "for the children ought not to yr 4 lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. a 1415 15 And I will very gladly spend and P be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. C 16 But be it so, I did not burden you: Gr nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile. 17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you? 18 I desired Titus, and with him I * sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps? 19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before any God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. 20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ant ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: 21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many "which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and "fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed. Obstinate sinners threatened. Anno DOMINI 60. ch. 12. 14. Numb. 35. 3. Deut. 17. II & 19. 15. latt. 18. 16. Bohn 8. 17. febr. 10. 28. cb. 10. 2. ch. 12. 21. ch. 1. 23. Matt. 10. o. 1 Cor. 5 ch. 2.10 GALATIANS, I. 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 a HIS is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. 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 'speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, 1 Cor. 9. 2. but is mighty in you. Phil. 2. 7, 34. 1 Pet. 3. 4h For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of Rom. 6.4. God. For we also are weak || in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. See ch. 10. 3,4"Or, with him. 11 Cor. 11. 28. 5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. no Rom. 8. Know ye not your own selves," how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be "reprobates? 10. Gal. 4. 19. n 1 Cor. 9. 27. Paul's exhortation and prayer. 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, though we be as reprobates. 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. 9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection. r Anno DOMINI 60. och. 6. 9. P1 Cor. 4. & 12.5, 9, 10. 10. ch. 11.30. q 1 Thess. 3. 10. r1 Cor. 4 21. ch. 2. 3. & 10. 2 & 12. 20, 21. 10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power Tit. 1. 13. which the Lord hath given me to edifi- t ch. 10. 8. cation, and not to destruction. u Rom. 12. 11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, "be of one mind, 16, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you. 12' Greet one another with an holy kiss. 13 All the saints salute you. 15 51 Cor. 1. 10. Phil. 2.2. & 3. 16. 1 Pet. 3. 8. x Rom. 15. 33. y Rom. 16. 14" The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, 16. 1 Cor. 6. and the love of God, and the communion 201 Thess. of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. 514 5. 26. 1 Pet. z Rom. 16. 24. The second epistle to the Corinthia Phil. 2. 1. ans was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas. 10 For do I now persuade men, or 7. Matt. 28. God? or do I seek to please men? for 9 if I yet pleased men, I should not be the 4. servant of Christ. 11 'But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. 12 For 'I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. 15 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that "beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: 14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. 15 But when it pleased God, parated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, who se 4. 4. r1 Cor. 15. s 1 Cor. 15. 13. ver. 1. t Eph. 3- 3. u Acts 9. L & 22. 4. & 26.11. 1 Tim. 1. 13 x Acts 8.3. + Gr. equals in years. y Acts 22. 3. & 26. g. Jer. 9. 14. Plol. 3. 6. Matt. 15. 2. Mark 7-5 A. D. 35 Isai. 49. 1, Acts 9. 15. & 5. Jer, 1. 5. 13.2. & 22. 14, 15. Rom. 1.1. b2 Cor. 4. 6. Acts 9. 18. & 22. 21. & 26. 17, 18. Rom. 11. 13. Eph. 3. 8. d Matt. 16. 16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immedi- 17.1 Cor. 15. ately I conferred not with flesh and blood: 50. b.6. Paul's reasons for going to Jerusalem. Anno DOMINI 58. A. D. 38. GALATIANS. 17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus. 18 Then after three years I went up e Acts 9.26. to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. Or, re turned. f 1 Cor. 9. 5. g Matt. 13. 55. Mark 6. 3. h Rom. 9. 1. i Acts 9.30. k 1 Thess. 2. 14. 19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother. 20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not. h 21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia; 22 And was unknown by face unto the Rom. 16. 7. churches of Judea which were in Christ: 23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. A. D. $2. a Acts 15. 2. b Acts 1512. 1 Or, severally. e Phil. 2. 16. Thess. 3. 5. d Acts 15- 1, 24. 2 Cor. 11. 26. 24 And they glorified God in me. 1 He sheweth when he went up again to Jerusalem, and for what purpose: 3 and that Titus was not circumcised: 11 and that he resisted Peter, and told him the reason, 14 why he and other, being Jews, do believe in Christ to be justified by faith, and not by works: 23 and that they live not in sin, who are so justified. THE HEN fourteen years after "I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. 2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain. 3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: 4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily e ch. 3. 25. to spy out our liberty which we have in fa Cor. 11. Christ Jesus, 'that they might bring us 20. ch.4.3 into bondage: Of justification by f fellowship; that we should go unto the DGE heathen, and they unto the circumcision. 10 Only they would that we should remember the poor; 'the same which I also was forward to do. 11 'But when Peter was come to An- Can L tioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. 12 For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. 13 And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. 20 I am crucified with Christ: never- +1 theless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son | The of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: T4 for "if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. CHAP. III. 1 He asketh what moved them to leave the faith, and hang upon the law? 6 They that believe are justified, 9 and blessed with Abraham. 10 And this he sheweth by many reasons. H that ye you, 8 (For he that wrought effectually in FOOLISH Galatians, who hath obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus beb Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, "the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles :) 18. Eph. 2. 20. Rev. 21. 9 And when James, Cephas, and John, Rom. 1.5 who seemed to be 'pillars, perceived the 15.15.1 Cor. grace that was given unto me, they gave 15.10. Eph. to me and Barnabas the right hands of & 12. 3, 6. & 3.8. c 2 This only would I learn of you, Re ceived ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? d 3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in 45 They that believe are justified. CHAP. IV. Anno DOMINI 58. Christ freed us from the law. Anno the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by | mises of God? God forbid: 1for if there had been a law given which could have the flesh? given life, verily righteousness should 1 ch. 2. 21. have been by the law. DOMINI 58. f Hebr. 7. 16. 4 Have ye suffered || so many things & g. 10. in vain? if it be yet in vain. g Hebr. 10. 35, 36. 2 John 8. Or, 10 great. 5 He therefore "that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of h2 Cor. 3.8. the law, or by the hearing of faith? 6 Even as Abraham believed God, 21, 22. Jam and it was || accounted to him for right i Gen. 15. 6. Rom. 4.3, 9, 2.23. Or, inputed. k John 8. 39. eousness. 7 Know ye therefore that they which Rom. 411, are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. 12, 16, 1 See Rom.9. 17. ver. 22. 8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto 18. 18 Abraham, saying, "In thee shall all na m Gen. 12.3. 22.18. Feclus 44. 21. Acts 3. 35. tions be blessed. 9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is n Deut. 27, written, "Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. 26. Jer. 11. 3 o ch. 2. 16. Hab. 2. 4. Rom. 1. 17. a Rom. 4. Lev. 18. 5. Ezek. 20. 11. 11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. P 12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. 13 'Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for Rom. 8.3. us: for it is written, Cursed is every one 2 Cor. 5. 21. ch. 4-5 t Deut. 21. that on 11. 27 For as many of you as have been 12.3. baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 5.6. Col. 3. 28 "There is neither Jew nor Greek, xJohn 10.16, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. ye Eph. 2. 14, 17. 20, 21. 15, 16. & 4. 4, 15. y Gen. 21.10, 12 Rom. 9. 7 Hebr.11. 29 And if ye be Christ's, then are Abraham's seed, and 'heirs according to 18 the promise. CHAP. IV. z Rom. 8. 17. ch. 4. 7, 28. Eph. 3.6. a ver. 9. ch 1 We were under the law till Christ came, as OW I say, That the heir, as long Dan. 9. at hangetheblessing of Abraham might N as he is a child, differeth nothing and 1.45 come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; 15 Brethren, I speak after the manner Joel 2. 28, 29. of men; 'Though it be but a man's || coZech. 12. 10. venant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto. John 7.39. Acts 2. 33 y Hebr. 9. 17. Or, testament. z Gen. 12. 3, 7. & 17.7. ver. 8. a1 Cor. 12. 12. b Exod. 12. 40, 41. 16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is "Christ. 17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law," which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, e Rom. 4-13, that it should make the promise of 14. ver. 21. d Rom. 8. 17. none effect. e Rom. 4. 14. 18 For if the inheritance be of the Rom. 4. 15. law, it is no more of promise: but God 8, 13. 1 Tim. gave it to Abraham by promise. & 5.20. & 7. 1. 9. g ver. 16. 19 Wherefore then serveth the law? Acts 7.53. 'It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. Hebr. 2. 2. i Exod. 20. 19, 21, 22. Deut. 5- 5, 22, 23, 27, 31. John 1. 17. 1 Tim. 2. 5. 1. Rom. 3. 29, h 4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, Mark Rom. 1. 3. Phil. 2. 7. Hebr. 2. 14. d Gen. 3. 15. Mic. 5.3. ai. 7. 14. Matt.1.23. Luke 1.31. & 2.7. Luke 2. 27. Matt. 5. 17. f 28. ch.3. 13. Tit. 2. 12. Eph. 1. 5 To redeem them that were under 14. Hebr. 9. 18, 19. the law, that we might receive the adop-1Pet. 1. g John 1. 12. Eph. 1. 5. tion of sons. 6 And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. 7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. 20 Now a mediator is not a mediator 30 1.9. Col. 2. 20. Tim. 2. 19. ments, ver.3. Hebr. 7. 18. p Rom. 14. 5. Col. 2, 16, ་ you. b Gen. 16. 15. e Gen. 21. 2. d Rom. 9. 7, 8. e Gen. 18. 10, 14. & 21. 1, 2. Hebr. 11. 11. 20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for stand in doubt of you. I 21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? 22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman, 23 But he who was of the bondwoman d was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. 24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two || covenants; the one Or, testa from the mount + Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. ments. + Gr. Sina. f Deut. 33. 2. ! Or, is in the same 25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem rank with. which now is, and is in bondage with her children. g Isai. 2. 2. Hebr. 12. 22. 26 But Jerusalem which is above is Rev. 3. 12. & free, which is the mother of us all. 21. 2, 10. h Isai. 54. 1. Rom. 9. 8. 27 For it is written, "Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, i Acts 3. 25. are the children of promise. 29 But as then he that was born after * Gen. 21.9. the flesh persecuted him that was born 1 ch.5. 11.& after the Spirit, even so it is now. ch. 3. 29. 6. 12. 30 Nevertheless what saith" the scripture? "Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall o John 8. 35- not be heir with the son of the freewoman. 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, "but of the free. p John 8. 36. h. 5. 1, 13. |
