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Acts . What ! Did he first preach Christianity to " the distant Gen-Giles" of Parthia and Media and Persia ?* Or would " the strangers of Rome , " on their return from the ever memorable festival of
Pentecost , be silent on * the wonderful works of God ? " Would they forbear to publish them ? Or could tiiey publish them without effect ? The propriety of Paul ' s designation , as Apostle of the Gentiles , is sufficiently vindicated by the fact of his being commissioned more
immediately to the Gentiles . It might be within the plan of Providence
that the members of the church at Rome should be unable to rank themselves exclusively under the banners of either Paul or Cephas * If that church was rather watered than planted by an apostle , the most prominent claim of the Roma *! pontiff cannot be supported .
Your correspondent , Sir , who states what he terms the " most capital objection" of Mr . E . with more than Mr . E ' s perspicuity and force , is pleased to say , * Thefe is not a hint given of his { Paul ' s ] finding any Christian church in Rome , nor of his receiving the
least attention or kindness from any Christian brethren in that
city . " Now , in answer , let me remark that the apostle chose to call together the chief of the Jews , by whom , in the language of bis historian , are meant the unbelieving part of his countrymen , and that they were called together , for
v ^ . r m the purpose of his informing them that he had " committed nothing against the people or customs of their fathers : * ' information which it was not requisite to communi - cate to those of the inhabitants of
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Rome who already professed Christianity . To assert that " Paul did not receive the least attention or kindness from any Christian brethren in that city , " is to beg the question . I have assigned a
reason * for considering the brethren who went as far asAppii Forum , to meet the apostle and his companions , as Christian brethren . Of the validity of that reason I am satisfied : nor am I unwilling to rely upon it as decisive of the
controversy . There is a passage in ^ the Second Epistle to Timothy ( iv . l 6 ) , which I have sometimes thought more favourable to Mr . Evanson ' s conclusion respecting the letter to the Romans , than any on which
he has insisted : — " at my first answer , no man stood with me , but all men forsook me . That the believers in Rome , of whose excellent qualities Paul elsewhere speaks with so much pleasure , should desert their friend and teacher in the day of trial ,
might appear not a little improbable . The difficulty vanished on my recollecting that when our Divine Master was arrested , " all the disciples / orsoo&hiraand fled /' I am , Mr . Editor , Yours , &c . N .
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On the Genuineness of the Epistle to the Romans . May 6 th , 1813 . Mr * Editor , The objections which one of
your correspondents has brought against the genuineness of the Epistle to the Romans , ( in page 193 of your present volume ) seem to me to admit of a very satisfactory answer . Indeed , they have
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On the Genuineness of the Epistle to the Romans . S $ 9
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 399, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/43/
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