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PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS. EXPOSITION. (Acts xv. 40). He suffered lmpriaonment CHAPTER L with Paul at Philippi; and waa engaged 0oNTENT8.-Paul, after the address and with him in preaching the gospel in Thes- salonica, Bercea, and Corinth. His ministry nlutation, testifies that he renders constant at Corinth is honourably mentioned by Paul thanks to God for the Thessalonians, calling in his Second Epistle to the Corinthians to remembrauce their faith, lo'l'e, and hope, (2 Cor. i. 9). After this there is no more Leing assured of their election. He ex- mention of Silvanns in the Acts, and it is presses his joy in their cordial reception of doubtful wl,ether he was the Silvanus by whom the First Epistle of Peter was con- the gospel and the Christian character veyed to the Churches of Asia ( l Pet. v. 12). 1 which they exhibited, being examples to all A!lcient tradition, erroneously supposing believers in Macedonia and Achaia. He tbat Silas and Silvanus were different mentions the favourable report which he persons, makes Silns the Bishop of Corinth, had of their conversion to God from idols, and Silvanus the Bishop of Thessalonica. and of their waiting for the advent of And Timothe118. The well-known disciple of Paul, He Wlll a native of Lystra., having a Christ. Greek father and a Jewish mother (Acts Ver. 1.-Paul. He does not call himself xvi. I). He joined Paul and Silas on their " an apostle," not because the 'fhessa.lonians second missionary journey at Ly,tra, and were newly converted (Chrysostom), or from was with them in Philippi, Thessalonica, tenderness to Silvanus who wus not an and Corinth. He we.a with Paul on his apostle (Estius), or because his apostolic third missionary journey, and was sent by authority was not yet recognized (Jowett), him on a mission to Macedonia and Corinth or because he bad merely commenced his (Acts xix. 22; I Cor. xvi. 10), and accom- apostolic labours (Wordsworth); but because panied him into Asia on his last journey to his aposlleship had never been called in Jerusalem (Acts xx.. 4). He was also with question by the Thessalonians. For the Paul during his first Roman imprisonment, same 1·cAson he omita this title in the Epistle when he wrote the Epistles to the Philippians to the Philippians; whereas he strongly in- and Colossians (Phil. i. l; Col. i. l). After- sists upon it in his Epistles to the Corin• wards he resided at Ephesus (l Tim. i. 3); thians and Galatians, beoause nmong them from which he was recalled to Rome by there were many opposed to his authority. Paul shortly before his martyrdom (2 Tim. Aud Silvanus. The same as the Silas of the iv. 21). The last mention of Timothy is in Acts. He is mentioned as a chief man the Epistle to the Hebrews: '"Know ye among the brethren, and a prophet or that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; inspired teacher (Acts xv. 22, 32). His witl1 whom, if he come shortly, 1 will see Latin no.me renders it probable that he was you" (Heb. xiii. 23). According to eccle- a Hellenistic Jew, and, like Paul, he was a siastioal tradition, he became Bishop of Rom1m citizen (Acts xvi. 37). He was sent Ephesus, and there suffered martyrdom. with Ju,las Barsabas from Jerusalem, to 1 Somt>, on insufficient rea10ns, identify convoy the apostolic decrees to Antioch ; and he accompanied Paul instead of Bar- Silas with Tertius (Rom. ui. 22), and u11l,a, on hie seoond missionary journey others with Luke. J, THESBA LONIANS. 2 THE FinST EPISTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS. [ou. 1. 1-10,