[29] Acts xviii. 18-21. To these general links connecting our Epistles with Ephesus, a few of less importance, yet not without significance, may be added. (1) The name of Demetrius (3 John 12) is certainly suggestive of the holy city of the earth-mother (Acts xix. 24, 38). Vitruvius assigns the completion of the temple of Ephesus to an architect of the name, and calls him "servus Dianæ." (2) St. John in his Gospel adopts, as if instinctively, the computation of time which was used in Asia Minor (John iv. 6, xix. 4--Hefel. _Martyrium S. Polycarp_. xxi.). On the same principle he speaks in the Apocalypse of "day and night" (Apoc. iv. 8, vii. 15, xii. 10, xiv. 11, xx. 10); St. Paul, on the other hand, speaks of "night and day" (1 Tim. v. 5). It is a very real indication of the accuracy of the report of words in the Acts that, while St. Luke himself uses either form indifferently (Luke ii. 37, xviii. 2), St. Paul, as quoted by him, always says "night and day" (Acts xx. 31, xxvi. 7). (3) Is it merely fanciful to conjecture that the unusual αγαθοποιων (3 John 11) may be an allusion to the astrological language in which alone the term is ever used outside a very few instances in the sacred writers? "He only is under a good star, and has beneficent omens for his life." Balbillus, one of the most famous astrologers of antiquity, the confidant of Nero and Vespasian, was an Ephesian, and almost supreme in Ephesus, not long before St. John's arrival there. Sueton., _Neron._, 36. [30] Aïa-so-Louk, a corruption of ἁγιος θεολογος, _holy theologian_ (or ἁγια θεολογου, _holy city of the theologian_). Some scholars, however, assert that the word is often pronounced and written _aiaslyk_, with the common Turkish termination _lyk_. See _S. Paul_ (Renan, 342, note 2). DISCOURSE II. _THE CONNECTION OF THE EPISTLE WITH THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN._ Συναδυσι μεν γαρ αλληλοις το ευαγγελιον και ἡ επιστολη. _Dionys. Alexandr. ap Euseb., H. E., vii., 25._ "And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full."--1 JOHN i. 4.