REV. ALFRED T. PAGET, M.A.

MATHEMATICAL MASTER OF SHREWSBURY SCHOOL,

AND FELLOW OF GONVILL AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

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̓Αλλ ̓ οὕτω τινὲς αὐτὸν ἀγνοοῦσιν, ὡς μηδὲ τῶν ἐπιστολῶν τὸν ἀριθμὸν
εἰδέναι σαφῶς. τοῦτο δὲ γίγνεται, οὐ παρὰ ἀμαθίαν, ἀλλὰ παρὰ τὸ μὴ βού-
λεσθαι συνεχῶς ὁμιλεῖν τῷ μακαρίῳ τούτῳ. οὐδὲ γὰρ ἡμεῖς ὅσαπερ ἴσμεν,
εἴπερ τινὰ ἴσμεν, δι ̓ εὐφυΐαν καὶ ὀξύτητα διανοίας ἐπιστάμεθα, ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸ
συνεχῶς ἔχεσθαι τοῦ ἀνδρὸς, καὶ σφόδρα διακεῖσθαι περὶ αὐτόν . · μηδεὶς
δὲ περίεργον τοῦτον ἡγείσθω τὸν πόνον, μηδὲ περιεργίας περιττῆς τὴν τοί-
αύτην ἔρευναν, συντελεῖ γὰρ ἡμῖν πρὸς τὰ ζητούμενα οὐ μικρὸν ὁ τῶν ἐπι-
στολῶν χρόνος. ΧΡΥΣΟΣΤΟΜΟΥ ὑπόθεσις τῆς πρὸς Ρωμαίους ἐπιστολῆς.

LONDON:

FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE.

1851.

107.6.279.

LONDON:

GILBERT & RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,

ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

TO THE

REV. THE MASTER,

AND TO THE

FELLOWS OF GONVILL AND CAIUS COLLEGE,

This Dissertation

ON THE UNITY AND ORDER OF THE EPISTLES OF ST. PAUL

TO THE CHURCHES,

IS INSCRIBED,

BY

THE WENDY FELLOW.

STAT. COLL. de Gon. ET CAIUS PER R. P. Wм.

BATEMAN.

2. De Obedientia et Gestu Sociorum.

aliquod sophisma problema vel quæstionem theodisputent.

logiæ.

....

PREFACE.

THE sum of what it is proposed, in the following pages, to render probable is :-that the Epistles of St. Paul to the Churches are one system; that the order of their composition is discoverable from their logical order as parts of such a system; that their order thus indicated, is, 1st. The Epistle to the Hebrews; 2nd. Those to the Corinthians and Thessalonians; 3rd. That to the Galatians; 4th. That to the Romans; 5th. Those to the Ephesians, Colossians, and Philippians.

The construction of such a system may have been accomplished in either of several ways. Either, the detached labours of the same principal actor in one great struggle were providentially ordered to form a consistent and selfelucidating whole; or, the Apostle, ever narrowly watching the effects of his teaching, and all the turning-points of the controversy in which he was engaged, himself designed that each succeeding letter should throw a light on the preceding, and should dispel whatever errors had arisen through misinterpretation; or, one great purpose, the development of Christianity out of Judaism, binding together the whole mass of this correspondence, the epistolary argument was to be only casually and subordinately diverted from