578 A SHORT VIEW OP SCRIPTIJRE HISTORY. and that God had raised him from the dead, as a sure token of it ; Verses 30, 31. 51. Q. What employment had Paul at Corinth ? A. He there met with Aquila, a believing Jew, with his wife Priscilla, and wroughtwith him at his trade, for they were both tent -nia- hers; but he preached in the Jewish synagogue every sabbath.' Verses 1 -4. 52, Q. What effect had this preaching there ? A. He con- tinued here by orders received from Christ in a vision a year and six months, and some Jews and many Gentiles believed, and were baptized ; Verses 5 -11. 53. Q. What persecution did he meet with there ? A. The Jews brought him to Gallio the deputy- governor, but he wisely refused to take cognizance of any of their controversies about religion, unless they could hatecharged him with some wicked- ness or injustice; Verses 12 -16. Note, First, Though Paul found such great and remarkable success in his ministry among the Corinthians, yet by the means of some false brethren, and some ambitious pretenders to apos- tleship, there were such'fáctions and contentions raised in this church, that cost him much sorrow of heart ; and this was in- creased by the irregular lives and immoral practices of some of his converts there, which occasioned his writing two large and excellent epistles to them. Secondiì/, Is it thought most proba- ble that Paul who went from Corinth to Cenchrea and to Ephe- sus, left Aquila and Priscilla at Ephesus, where they instructed Apollos, a fervent preacher, a disciple of John baptist, in the gospel of Christ ; but that Paul himself went to Jerusalem to the feast, and returned to' Ephesus again before Aquila went thence, and before his great success at Ephesus began, which is related in the very next chapter, viz. the nineteenth. 54. Q. When Paul came to Ephesus, what remarkable occurrences slid he meet with there ? A. He found some per- sons who were baptised only unto .John's baptism, and he preached Jesus Christ to them, and they believed, and were baptized in the name of Christ; and when Paul laid his bands on them, they received the holyGhost, and spake with tongues; Acts xix. 1 -7. 55. Q. How did he perform the rest of his ministry there ? A. Three months he preached the gospel in the Jewish syna- gogue, but' when the Jews were hardened against him, he taught the samegospel in the school of one Tyrannus for near two 'years, and healed many diseases, and castout evil spirits Verses 8 -12. 56. Q. Was he notpersecuted by the heathens in this place ? A. WhenDemetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines for the goddess Diana, whose famous temple stood at Ephesus, found that the worship of the goddess declined through Paul's
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