rend~r('d "with all hie house," oooure only oiln8 Romanua. But nothing more la known here ID the New Testament. But it is used about it. It does not nppear why their by the LXX. in Exod. i. land elsewhere, and exemption IU! Roman citizens wea not made by Josephus, eto. The more elassi.e.o.l form good before; bu·, probably the ml\giatro.tea is ,ra1•0•"•"'~ or ,ravo11n1<rlq.. The A.V. giv~B refused to listen to any pleo. in tholr l!Mte the meaning better than the R.V. The faith and ,,iolence. and the joy were both common to the jailor Ver. 88.-Re7iorted for toM, A.V. and his house. Vor. 89.- Whe11 tJiey had brought them oue Yer. 85.-But for and, A.V. The magie- they asked for brought them out and desired, tmtes; i.e. the prretors or duumviri, as in A.V.; t,o go away from for t,o depart out of, 'l'er. 22 (where see note). The eerjeants; A.V. i.e. the liotors (ver. 22, note). Ver. 40.-Departed; i.e. from Philippi, Yer. 36.-Jai!or for 1,eeper of the prilon, acoording to the magistrates' request in ver, A.V., as ver. 27; reported the tc0rds ... 89. This is much oler.rer in the T.R. o.nd saying for t,old th.~ aaying, A.V. and T.R.; A. V. than in the Revised Text o.nd Version, eome fortli for depart, A.V. because the snme word, i~o.. B,i'v, is used in Ver. 8i.-Pul1licly for openly A.V. (811- both places. The RT. in ver, 39-<l.1re.>..8,,v µo<T(~ oh. xviii. 28; :u. 20); men that are for a1ro destroys the reference, and rather sug- lieing, A. V.; M they now r.ast for now do theiJ gests that they merely" went out "of Lydia'a U1nuit, A. V.; bring for jewh., A.V. Men that house, which they had "entered into." It a.re Romans. We have exactly the same appears from the first verse of eh. xvil. phrnse in oh. xxii. 25, on a similar occasion, (" they had po.ssed," et.o.) that St. Luke where also is the only other example of the stopped at Philippi,and probably made it his word aHa'TaKpl'ros, uncondemned. ~A,cp1-ros head-quarters till St. Paul's last journey with a like meaning (" untried," "without from Macedonia to Jerusalem, some six or trial "), is common in classical Greek. The seven years later 1 (eh. xx. 6). What 1,atin phrase is indicta cau.sa. By the Lex became of Timothy we are not expressly \'alerie. (.Lu.o. 254), "Ne quis magistratue told, only we find him at Berma in eh. xvii. civem Rome.num adversus provoco.tionem 14 and l These. iii. 5 ; o.nd at Corinth (1 necaret neve verberaret," every Roman Thess. i. 1 ; 2 These. i. 1 ; l Th ess. iii. 6). citizen had a right to appeal (provocare) to Probo.bly he accompanied St. Paul, but is ihe populace age.inst any sentence of death not named, being still only a subordinate or stripes pronounced by the consuls or any person in the mission. other magistrate ; and by the Lex Porcia (.a.:c.c. 5u6), no Roman citizen could be 1 Lewin (vol. i. p. 221) thinks that Luke scourged. Silas, it appen.rs from the phrase, composed his Gospel during this period, " us . . , men that are Romans," was also a referring to 2 Cor. viii. 18.
HOMILETICS. V ers. 1-5.-The choi~ of a fit person. The ordination of Timothy to be a. minister of God, and St. Paul's fellow-labourer in the gospel of Christ (1 Tim. iv. 14-; 2 Tim. i. 6 ; 1 Thess. iii 2), was a great event in the Church's history. The character of her individual bishops and priests has always been a matter of paramount importance, and in nothing do we see the wisdom of the great apostle more conspicuous than in the choice of his fellow-labourers. He who refused Mark, because he was not sure of him, iliscerned in Timothy, young as he was, that simplicity of purpose, and that sober and docile zeal in the service of Christ, which made him a fit instrument for the most arduous missionary work. Many qualifications concurred in Timothy. There was his thorough grouodiog in the knowledge of the Holy Scriptures through the pious care of his mother and grandmother, which gave strength to his own faith, and made him capable of reasoning with the Jews. '!'here was bis Jewish birth on his mother's side, which, when he was circumcised, would make him acceptable to the circumcision; and there was his Gentile birth on his father's side, which would enable him to sympathize with the Greeks, and would dispose them to listen to him. There was bis early acquaintance with the afflictions of the gospel, which he had seen so bravely borne by the apostle at Iconium aod at Lystra, and which he bad dared to share by taking upon himself the Christian profession in the very heat of the persecution; and there was his warm attachment to St. Paul as of a son to his father, Ali this Paul saw in him, and foresaw that, of all his missionary band, none would exceed Timothy in devotedness to the l,ord's work, aud in singl<>ness of aim for the Church's good (Phil. ii. 19-22), en. XVI. 1-10.) 'l'lIE AO'fS OF THE APOSTLES. 33