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    they had left Rome , being Jews , in obedience to an edict of Claudius . ' < Rather before ! " Yes , as much as seven vcars before : for Paul met with Aquila and Priscilia , lately come from Italy , in his first visit to Corinth , in the

    year 51 ( see Lardner vi . p . 280 ) , and the period to which Mr . Evanson ascribes the Epistle , is proved from the Acts , or from other Epistles , to be in the spring of the year 58 . There is , surely , in this interval , time enough for a

    pretty long residence of these exemplary Christians at Ephesus , ( whither they accompanied Paul , Acts , xviii * IS )) and a subsequent return to Rome , before Paul wrote this Epistle , It is certainly very

    conceivable , that Aquila and Priscilla , having been forced to leave Rome suddenly , might have reasons for returning to it , as soon as the death of Claudius permitted them . Now he died October 13 , A . d . 54 . I wonder it did not occur to

    Mr . Evanson , that the writer of this Epislle , ( supposing it to be spurious , ) must have been a bungler indeed , if he fell into the palpable and manifest absurdity of making Paul personally acquainted with persons whom he

    had never seen ; and representing Paul as desirous to go to Rome , at the very time when it was not safe for any Jew to be in Rome . The reason why Paul might be acquainted with many persons at Rome , without having been there , will appear when we answer

    The 3 d objection of Mr . Evanson to this Epistle , which seems to have much weight with your correspondent . 1 shall give it in Mr . Evanson ' s own words . " From the history in the Acts , it is evident that when Paul arrived at Rome

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    for the first time * in the reign of Nero , there was no Christian Church there , as , indeed , it is not at all probable there should have been , because Paul was the Apostle particularly chosen and delegated for that purpose , and he accordingly first preached the gospel to the distant Gentiles , as recorded in the Acts . From the

    same history there is every reason to believe , that the gospel had never been preached beyond the limits of Asia , till Paul was , in a vision , admonished to go into Macedonia , and from thence into

    Greece ; yet Paul is made to write this epistle to the Christian converts at Rome , whilst he was preaching the gospel at Corinth Who then was that other apostle to the Gentiles , who so far

    preceded Paul , as already to have reached Rome , and to have founded a church there , early enough for its being c spoken of throughout the whole world , * when Paul , in the execution of the commission

    miraculously given to him by Christ himself , had advanced no farther than Macedonia and Greece ? Besides , from the last chapter of Acts it appears , incontestably , that they were not Christians but Jews * who met Paul at ^ f A ^ — ¦ » — m ^ P" ^ ^» V V ^* r ^¦^ w w ** r ^ m « —»— - ^— - ™ « mm ^ w ^ ^ ^^ m w A %%

    ^^ Appii Forum , that his first step , when he arrived at Rome , was to call the Jews resident there , and exculpate himself for having appealed to the Emperor , that those Jews , far from knowing the gospel to have been already preached and

    received at Rome , declared themselves totally ignorant concerning it , except that it was every where spoken against , and were desirous to be informed of its doctrines by him , which after he had done , upon their disagreeing and leaving him he said , ' Be it known to you that

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    On tie Genuinentss of the Epistle to the Romans * , 401

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1813, page 401, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2429/page/45/