expression of the Author, who uses it ix. 35, xi. 21, xiv. 15, xxvi. 20, and Luke i. 16, and it does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament except in 1 Pet. ii. 25. Verse 20: [------], xxi. 25, and Hebr. xiii. 22 only. [------] xv. 29, Luke vi. 24, vii. 6, xv. 20, xxiv. 13, 1 Thess. iv. 3, v. 22, 1 Tim. iv. 3, 1 Pet. ii. 11, and {254} elsewhere 7 times; in both passages of the Ep. to the Thess. it is used with [------] as here. [------] is not elsewhere found. [------], vii. 41; 6 times by Paul, and elsewhere 3: it occurs very frequently in the Septuagint. [------], xv. 29, xxi. 25; Paul 8, elsewhere 15 times. [------], xv. 29, xxi. 25, a technical word. [------], Acts 12, Luke 11 times, rest frequently, [------], ii. 40, viii. 33, xiii. 36, xiv. 16; Luke 13 times, Matth. 13, Mk. 5, rest 5 times. [------], xv. 7, xxi. 16; Luke ix. 8, 19, elsewhere 7 times. [------], xv. 36, xx. 23, xxiv. 12; Luke viii. 1, 4, xiii. 22, and elsewhere only in Tit. i. 5. [------], viii. 5, ix. 20, x. 37, 42, xix. 13, xx. 25, xxviii. 31; Luke 9, Paul 14, elsewhere 30 times. [------], Acts 9, Luke 20, rest 35 times, the whole phrase [------] occurs again in the Acts, being put into the mouth of Paul xiii. 27, and [------] being used by the writer in xviii. 4. [------], Acts 20; Luke 15, rest 22 times, [------], viii. 28, 30 twice, 32, xiii. 27, xv. 31, xxiii. 34; Luke 3, and elsewhere 22 times. This analysis confirms the conclusion that the speech of James at the Council proceeds likewise from the pen of the general author, and the incomprehensible liberality of the sentiments expressed, as well as the peculiarity of the quotation from Amos according to the Septuagint, thus receive at once their simple explanation. If we now compare the account of James's share in granting liberal conditions to Gentile Christians with the statements of Paul, we arrive at the same result. It is in consequence of the arrival of "certain men from James" [------] that Peter through fear of them withdrew from communion with the {255}