"Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects): The New Testament, with a Sketch of the Subsequent History of the Jews.Ross, Mary, Lady
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"Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects): The New Testament, with a Sketch of the Subsequent History of the Jews.
Ross, Mary, Lady
Bible stories, English -- New Testament; Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Jews -- History
When the town-clerk had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly. "And
after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples," to
take leave of them, "and embraced them, and departed for to go into
Macedonia."
From another part of the Bible, we learn that Timothy was now left at
Ephesus, to direct the affairs of the Church in that city. We are not
told what places St. Paul now visited in Macedonia, but no doubt he
went wherever he had been before, as well as to other places. From one
of these places in Macedonia, St. Paul wrote the First Epistle to
Timothy; directing him how to answer the Jewish teachers, who tried to
bring false doctrines into the Church at Ephesus. After giving Timothy
much advice as to what he was to teach to others, St. Paul ends his
letter by begging him to keep steadfast in the faith of the Gospel; to
avoid and flee from all sins; and to follow after righteousness,
godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness, that so he might, for
Jesus Christ's sake, receive eternal life.
Chapter XX.--ST. PAUL'S JOURNEY TO MILETUS.
During the time that St. Paul was journeying about in Macedonia, he
suffered much both from the unbelieving Jews and the infidels; for he
says himself, in one of his Epistles (2 Cor. vii.), "when we were come
into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every
side; without were fightings, within were fears." But in the midst of
his troubles, the Apostle had one great comfort, for Titus came to him
from Corinth, and brought him a very satisfactory account of the state
of the Church in that city.
A short time afterwards, he sent Titus back to Corinth, and by him he
sent his "Second Epistle to the Corinthians." Some of the teachers,
who had been reproved for disturbing the faith of the believers by
their mistaken teaching, had, in their anger at the reproof, spoken
ill of St. Paul himself. In this letter, therefore, St. Paul shows the
Corinthians that all he has done or said has been according to the
Will of God, and that therefore they may safely believe him rather
than any teachers, whose doctrines do not agree with what he had
taught them. Many other things he wrote; above all, entreating the
members of the Corinthian Church to keep steadily in the Faith of the
Lord Jesus Christ, and to strive to please God in all things, by
living in peace and holiness.
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