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LITERAL TRANSLATION

FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK,

OF ALL THE

APOSTOLICAL EPISTLES.

WITH

A COMMENTARY, AND NOTES,

PHILOLOGICAL, CRITICAL, EXPLANATORY, AND PRACTICAL,

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL.

By JAMES MACKNIGHT, D. D

AUTHOR OF A HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS, &c.

THE SECOND EDITION. IN SIX VOLUMES.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,
AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

VOL. IV.

LONDON:

PRINTED POR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW;

AND WILLIAM CREECH, AND OGLE AND AIKMAN, EDINBURGU.

1806,

CONTENTS

OF

THE FOURTH VOLUME.

1 THESSALONIANS, p. I.
PREFACE. Sect. 1. Of the introduction of the gospel into

Thefialonica.--2. Of the occasion of writing this epiftle.--
3. Of the matters treated of in it.

2 THESSALONIANS, p. 97.

Preface. Sect. j. Of the occasion of writing this epistle.-2.

Of the time and place of writing it.--3. Shewing that none
of the apostles thought the day of judgment would happen in
their life-time.-4. Of the different comings of Christ

· spoken of in scripture.

1 TIMOTHY, p. 154.

Preface. Sect. 1. Timothy's history.--2. Of the time when

this epistle was written.---3. Of the occasion of writing it.

–4. Of the use which the church in every age is to make of

the epistles to Timothy and Titus.-5. Shewing that the

church of the living God is the pillar and support of the

truth. that the church of Rome is not the church of the

living God exculsively of all other churches; and that its
claim to infallibility is altogether without foundation.

2 TIMOTHY, p. 272.

Preface. Sect. 1. Of the time of writing this epistle.-2. Of

the place where Timothy resided when it was written to him.

-3. Of the occafion of writing it. ---4. That the truth of

the gospel is árongly confirmed by the things written in this

epifle.

TITUS,