Answer. Oh! yes, _that_ it is. Between the two cases, there is this broad difference. Whatever Paul might receive, he would receive for himself: whatever, after payment made, under the treaty, to the use of the Jerusalem poor, he retained,--he might retain for his own use. But the Apostles--that which, if anything, they received, in the name of the poor, and as for the use of that same poor,--would they--could they, for their own use, retain it, or any part of it? Not they, indeed. Not in their hands were the poor's funds: not in theirs, but in a very different set of hands:--in the hands of a set of trustees--of the trustees already mentioned in this work, Ch. 2--of those administrators, whose function, to every reader who has not the Greek original in view, is so unfortunately disguised by the word _Deacons_. And these deacons, by whom appointed? By the Apostles? No; but, by the whole communion of the saints--by the whole number of the members of the Christian commonwealth;--and in the way of free election,--_election, on the principle of universal suffrage_. Monarchists and Aristocrats! mark well!--_of universal suffrage_. So much for the treaty itself. Now, as to the subsequent conduct of the parties, under it, and in relation to it. As to the partition--Paul to the Gentiles, Peter and his associates to the Jews--such was the letter of it. Such being the letter--what, at the same time, was the spirit of it? Manifestly this: on the one hand, that the field, to which Paul's exertions should apply themselves, and confine themselves, should be that field, for the cultivation of which, with any prospect of success, he was exclusively qualified: on the other hand, that the field, to which their exertions should apply themselves and confine themselves, should be that, for the cultivation of which, they were--if not exclusively, at any rate more peculiarly, qualified. In a word--that, of all that portion of the world, that presented itself as open to the exertions, of those who preached in the name of Jesus,--they should reserve to themselves that part which was already in their possession, to wit, Jerusalem, and its near neighbourhood, together with such parts of Judea, and its neighbourhood, of which their own language, the Hebrew, was the vernacular language: this minute portion of the world reserved, all the rest was to be left open to him: over every other part of it he was to be at liberty to cast forth his shoe. Judea--the country of the Jews? say, rather, the Jews themselves:--the Jews wherever found: for, revelation apart, it was in _language_, that Paul's pretensions--his exclusive qualifications--consisted. The Apostles spoke nothing but Hebrew: Paul was learned, and eloquent, in a certain sort, in Greek.