"Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of _Galatia_, even so do _ye_.--Upon the _first day of the week_, let every one of you _lay by him in store_, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.--And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto _Jerusalem_.--And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.--Now I will come unto you when I shall pass through Macedonia; for I do pass through _Macedonia_.--And it may be that I will abide, yea and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.--For I will not see you now by the way: but I trust to tarry a while with _you_ if the Lord permit.--But I will tarry at _Ephesus_ until Pentecost." At Ephesus, where he becomes an object of jealousy, as we have seen, to the church-silversmiths; and, from his declared business at those _other_ places, some evidence surely is afforded of what was his probable business in _that_ place. Next let us see a passage in his Epistle to his _Romans_: date of it, A.D. 58. Here, in two instances, we shall see the success, with which this system was pursued by him: as also a maxim, laid down by him--a maxim, in which the existence of this same system, on his part, is acknowledged: a maxim, in which his hopes of success in the pursuit of it, are declaredly founded. Rom. 15:24-28. A.D. 58. "Whensoever I take my journey into _Spain_, I will come to you; for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.--But now I go unto _Jerusalem, to minister unto the Saints_.--For it hath pleased them of _Macedonia_ and _Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem_.--It hath pleased them verily: and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made _partakers of their spiritual things_, their _duty_ is also _to minister unto them in carnal things_.--When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come _by you_ into _Spain_." In the instance in question, money (we see)--of the quantity of course nothing said--is mentioned by him, as being actually in his hands: the purpose, for which it was there,--and to which he would of course be understood to intend applying it,--being also mentioned by him:--applying it, at Jerusalem, to the use of the poor saints. So much for _professed_ intentions. Now then for _real_ ones. Answer, in his own words: that those Gentiles, who by him had been made partakers of his spiritual things, might, as in "_duty_" bound, "minister" to him, so much the more effectively "in carnal things:" that he, who preached, what he called the Gospel, might, as he had been preaching to his Corinthians also (1 Cor. ix. 14) be enabled so much the more comfortably to "live by" it.