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.

IN SIX YOLUMES

TO WHICH 18 PREFIXED,

AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

VOL. IV.

BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY W. WELLS AND T. B. WAIT & Co.

T. B. Wait and Co. Printers

1810.

CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.

1 THESSALONIANS, p. 1.

PREFACE....Sect. I. Of the introduction of the gospel into Thessalonica.....

II. Of the occasion of writing this epistle....III. Of the matters treated

of in it.

2 THESSALONIANS, p. 97.

PREFACE..... Sect. I. Of the occasion of writing this epistle.....II. Of the

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

1 TIMOTHY, p. 154.

PREFACE..... Sect. I. Timothy's history..... II. Of the time when this epistle

was written.....III. Of the occasion of writing it.....IV. Of the use which

the church in every age is to make of the epistles to Timothy and Titus.

.... V. 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 exclusively of all other churches; and that its claim to infallibility
is altogether without foundation.

2 TIMOTHY, p. 270.

PREFACE..... Sect. I. Of the time of writing this epistle.....II. Of the place

where Timothy resided when it was written to him..... III. Of the occa-
sion of writing it.....IV. That the truth of the gospel is strongly confirmed
by the things written in this epistle.

TITUS, p. 343.

PREFACE..... Sect. I. The history of Titus.....II. Of the introduction of the

gospel into Crete... III. Of Crete, and of the manners of its inhabitants.
.....IV. Of the time and place of writing this epistle.....V. Of the purpose

for which it was written.

PHILEMON, p. 388.

PREFACE...... Sect. I. The history of Philemon......II. Of Paul's design in

writing this epistle.....III. Of the use which is to be made of it....IV. Of

the time and place of writing it.