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Aristarchus my companion in bonds salutes you. and so does Mark, nephew to Barnabas, for whom you have receiv'd recommendations. if he come to you, give him a kind reception.

so that you became examples to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.

for the gospel has made so favourable a progress not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every other place, where the reputation of your divine faith has spread, that 'tis needless to mention any thing of it; since they all relate of us,

Our affection therefore to you being so great, we were as ready to give our lives for you, as we were to communicate the divine gospel to you, so much did you engage our love.

you are witnesses, and God is so too, how holy, how just and irreproachable our behaviour was to you, who believe.

As for me, my brethren, having been so abruptly separated from you, in person, tho' not in affection, I have the more ardently endeavour'd to see you again.

so that your way of life may stand fair to the world, and prevent your being dependent upon any man.

then we, who shall be still alive, shall be convey'd together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall ever be with the Lord.

be thankful to God for every thing, for so christians are oblig'd to be.

so that you are the subject of our glorying in the churches of God, for the constancy of your faith, under all the persecutions and afflictions you endure from men,

I Paul salute you, this salutation being my own hand writing, which is the distinguishing mark of all my letters, so I write.

nor must he be a new convert; for fear he should be elated with pride, and so involve himself in the same ruin as the devil.

The vices of some men are so notorious, they prevent any inquisition: others don't discover themselves till they have been ordain'd.

exert yourself in the glorious cause of faith, and secure the prize of eternal life, to which you were called, when you made that excellent profession of faith before so many witnesses.

for which I suffer even the chains of a malefactor: but the word of God is not so confin'd.

and so they may rouze out of the snare of the devil, who leads them captive at his discretion.

Moses did not meet with greater opposition from Jannes and Jambres, than truth does from men so corrupted in their mind, and so adulterated in their faith.

however the Lord assisted and strengthen'd me, that the gospel might be confirm'd by my remonstrance, and all the nations might hear it; so that I was deliver'd out of the mouth of the lion:

and gives the expectation of eternal life, which the God of veracity promised so many ages ago;

so that the christian faith, which you have in common with us, displays itself to the observation of all good men about you.