LITERAL TRANSLATION

FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK,

OF ALL THE

APOSTOLICAL EPISTLES.

WITH

A COMMENTARY, AND NOTES,

PHILOLOGICAL, CRITICAL, EXPLANATORY, AND PRACTICAL.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL.

BY JAMES MACKNIGHT, D.D.
AUTHOR OF A HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS, &c.

IN SIX VOLUMES

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

VOL. IV.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY W. WELLS AND T. B. WAIT & Co.

T. B. Wait and Co. Printers.

1810.

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CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.

1 THESSALONIANS, p. 1.

PREFACE.... Sect. I. Of the introduction of the gospel into Thessalonica....

II. Of the occasion of writing this epistle....III. Of the matters treated

of in it.

2 THESSALONIANS, p. 97.

PREFACE..... Sect. I. Of the occasion of writing this epistle....II. Of the
time and place of writing it.....III. Shewing that none of the apostles
thought the day of judgment would happen in their life-time.....IV. Of
the different comings of Christ spoken of in scripture.

1 TIMOTHY, p. 154.

PREFACE... Sect. I. Timothy's history.....II. Of the time when this epistle

was written.....III. Of the occasion of writing it.....IV. Of the use which

the church in every age is to make of the epistles to Timothy and Titus.

....V. Shewing that the church of the living God is the pillar and support

of the truth: that the church of Rome is not the church of the living
God exclusively of all other churches; and that its claim to infallibility
is altogether without foundation.

2 TIMOTHY, p. 270.

PREFACE.....Sect. I. Of the time of writing this epistle.....II. Of the place
where Timothy resided when it was written to him.....III. Of the occa-
sion of writing it....IV. That the truth of the gospel is strongly confirmed
by the things written in this epistle.

TITUS, p. 343.

PREFACE..... Sect. I. The history of Titus.....II. Of the introduction of the

gospel into Crete.....III. Of Crete, and of the manners of its inhabitants.

.....IV. Of the time and place of writing this epistle.....V. Of the purpose

for which it was written.

PHILEMON, p. 388.

PREFACE...Sect. I. The history of Philemon......II. Of Paul's design in

writing this epistle.....III. Of the use which is to be made of it....IV. Of

the time and place of writing it.

A NEW

LITERAL TRANSLATION

OF ST. PAUL'S FIRST

EPISTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS.

PREFACE.

SECTION I.

Of the Introduction of the Gospel at Thessalonica; and of the Date of St. Paul's First Epistle to the Thessalonians.

FROM the history of the Acts of the apostles, it appears that St. Paul first passed into Europe to preach the gospel, after he had delivered the decrees of the council of Jerusalem (Acts xvi. 4.) to the churches in the Lesser Asia, whereby the Gentiles were declared free from obeying the law of Moses, as a term of salvation. In the course of that journey Paul having come to Troas, as was mentioned in the preface to the epistle to the Philippians, Sect. 1. there appeared to him in the night, a vision of a man in the habit of a Macedonian, praying him to come over into Macedonia, and help them. In obedience to that call, which they knew to be from Christ, the apostle with his assistants Šilas and Timothy, went first to Philippi, and laid the foundation of a very flourishing church there. After that, they went to Thessalonica, a great sea-port town of Macedonia, which being anciently called Therma gave its name to the bay on which it was situated. At that time Thessalonica was the residence of the Proconsul who governed the province of Macedonia, and of the Questor, who had the care of the Emperor's revenues. This city, therefore, being the metropolis of all the countries comprehended in the province of Macedonia (see 1 Thess. i. 7. note), and the seat of the courts of justice, and the place where the affairs of the province were managed, and carrying on an extensive commerce by its merchants, was full of inhabitants, among whom were many philosophers and men