15 Of whom be thou ware alſo; for he hath great- ly withſtood |] our words.
16 At my firſt anſwer a no man ſtood with me b, but all men forſook mec: 7 pray God that it may not be laid to their chargg d. -
a At my firſt appearing before Nero, and the Court of Rome, b none of the Chriſtians ftood by me, or owned me ; c but all dein frighted at my danger, left me alone to ſpeak for my felf, d Th ſinned through weakneſs, and humane frailty, and the Lord I hope will pardon it ; God grant them remiſſion, :
17 Notwithſtanding the Lord ſtood with me e, and ſtrengthned me f, that by me the preaching might be fully known g, and that all the Gentiles might hear þ, and I was delivered out of the mouth of
the lyon 7z.
Ul S. and to defend my cauſe, g That all Men that heard ; know, by God's preſence with me, ſeen in my MN YER Preaching was not from my ſelf, or from Men, but from God hy meſſage of God by me to the Sons of Men. þ And that all the H l then preſent in the Court of Rome might hear and believe+ j Pray was for the preſent delivered out of my great danger, or poſſibly þ calls Nero (the Roman Emperor at that time) a Lyon for his Aa rous Cruelties. 4 18 And the Lord ſhall deliver me from every evil work 7, and will preſerve me unto his heaven. ly kingdom k, to whom be glory for ever and ever.
Amen |. ;
7 Faith riſeth upon experience, 1 Sam. 17. 37, 46. 2 Cyr, x Io. By Evil work may be underſtood any tin into which Paul might fall through temptation ; Or, the evi works of others qe. ſigning miſchief to the Apoſtle 3 he exprefleth his Faith in this term of various fignification, to learn us how to exerciſe our Faith in God in an evil time, y believing that God will either deliver us from our danger, or from finning by reaſon of our danger s for we have no foundation for our Faith, to believe that GOD will at all times keep us from evils of ſuffering, k And that He will fave us, and preſerve us, if not as to a Temporal Life, yet tg a Cceleftial, Honourable, Glorious Inheritance, } This is an yſyaj _ of giving Praiſe to God, deſiring all Honour might be giyen to Hum.
of Oneſiphorus ».
m By this Priſce and Aqui} it is more than probable, he means that Priſcills and Aquiia mentioned 1 Cor, 16, 19, # It cannot he concluded from hence that 0nefiphorus was now dead, but probably he was. It is the ſame Man, mentioned chap. 1, 16.
20 Eraſtus abodeat Corinth o : but Trophimus have
L lefr at Miletus ſick p.
0 Of this Eraſtus ſee Rom. 16. 23. He was the Chamberlain of Corinth, ſo he abode there 3 Paul ſent him into Macedonia, As ty, 22. þ Trophimus was an Epheſian, Affs 21. 29. one of Pau}; Companions, As 20, 4, he was left at Miletum, a Cityfn 4ji not far from Epheſus,
21 Do thy diligence to come before winter q, Eu- bulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Clau-
{dia, and all the brethren y.
q That is, to come to Rome to me before Winter ;z either becauſe Sailing in the Winter time would be more dangerous, or becauſe in the Winter time he might have more need of his aſſiftance. » We have no further account of theſe Perſons in Holy Writ, the firſt is a Greek Name, the reſt Larine,Claudia is a Womans Name, Paul ſends the reſpetts of theſe Perſons, and all the other Chriſtians that at that time were in Rome to Timothy,
22 The Lord Jeſus Chriſt be with thy pirit /, Grace
be with you t, Amen, ſ See the like Gal. 6. 18, Phikemow 25. e The Free Grace of
e That is, did not leave me. It is opened by the next Word,
God in its various Emanations ſuited to all your Neceſſities, B:
f He gave me courage and inward ability, ſo as I was able to plead, with vou, Amen.
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A S a General of an Army, who bath a large Country to conquer, cannot bimſell ſtay long in a Conquered City, but —_ it with a Garriſon, under Commanders, himſelf ſtill goes forward in his Conqueſts, and by bis Letters di- refs thoſe hom he hath left Governours in his Conquered Places, how to behave themſebues: So the Apoſtle of the Gen-
tiles having a large Field to run over, before he co
finiſh his courſe, Atts 26. 17, 18. could not bimſelf ſtay long in
places where he had _— People into a ſubjefFion to the he but after a time, leaving them as @ Garriſon to = s
Chriſt's poſſeſſion in the phace, left them under the condutt 0 wrote Letters direftive of ſuch Miniſter, to ſettle the Churc himſelf ; thus he left Timothy at Epheſus, 'Titus at Crete. North hath the Agean Sea, the African Sea or the South,
_ Eminent Diſciple and Miniſter, to whom he afterwar
in ſuch a place, what, and how to Preach, and behave to Grecia, which on the
Crete 5s 4 great Iſland belongin Inhabitants of it were
It was anciently called Cures, :
called Cretians, Tir. 1. 12. or Cretes, AQts 2. 11. 7 read of the lland, Adts 27. as Paul ſailed by it to Rome. It had formerly in it One Hundred Cities, being in length Two Hundred Seventy Miles, in breadth Fifty, in compaſs Eight Hundred and Nine Miles ; Cortina, Cydon, Gnoſſus, Minois, (the Country of the Famous Geographer Strabo)
were ſome of the Cities Famous in it. It is now called Candia :
the Pofſ ſion of the Turks. It was a wery rich When the firſt Plantation of the Goſpel was made there, his kaving Titus there. Titus was @ Greek, Gal. 2.
it was lately taken from the Venetians, and is now
lace, famous for Wines, and the place where Braſs was firſt found out. the Scripture doth not ſay: It was made by Paul, as appears by 3. Converted by Paul, as eppears by 1 Tit. 1. 4. afterwards made # Miniſter, for he was Paul's Partner, and Fellow-helper, 2 Cor. 8. 23. and m.
ed his Brother, 2. Cor. 2.13. uſed as
bis Meſſenger, 2 Cor. $.6., He was left by Paul in Candia, or Crete, 3o ſettle the Church there ; and to ordain Elders in every City, Titus 1. 5. He writes this Epiſtle to him from Nicopolis,” chap. 3. 12, There were Four Cities of that Name. The ſeope of it appears to any that read it, to be, to dire him, wh
bow to deal wit
at Perſons he ſhould ordain as Miniſters,
falſe Teachers, and how to behave himſelf, both as to Preaching and Living, towards all ſorts of Perſons.
Chap. 1,
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CHAP. I.