Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1866 Excerpt: ... VII. Christian friendship--Corinth, a centre of wide-spread sympathy and activity--Epistles written from Corinth or to Corinth--Barnabas--John--Mark--Silas--Timotheus--Peculiar tenderness of feeling towards him--His character--Titus--His work and character--His responsibilities in Crete--Tyciiicvs and TnormMus--Epathroditus--Sympathy connected with sickness--Luke--Apollos--Aqulla and Priscilla--Christian women--Phcsbe--Salutations sent from Corinth in the Epistle to Rome. TTRIENDSHIP has been consecrated by our Saviour Himself; and the--union of Christian friends has ever since been found to be one of the most effectual means of spreading the Gospel and building up the saints. St. Paul is the most eminent illustration which the Church has yet seen of this holy and fruitful principle. He felt the need of companions: he Avas lonely in their absence: he lived in their life: he suffered in their sorrows. And this sympathy became the abounding source of a vast amount of co-operation and active service in the highest of all causes. It will now be our delightful task to gather together into one view the chief Scriptural notices of the companions of St. Paul. Nor could any scene be more suitable for this combination than the city of Corinth, at which we are now arrived. This place may be taken as a centre for his friendships as naturally as for the field of his labour. Geographically, Corinth is the middle point between Asia Minor, the place of his early victories among the heathen, and Italy, the place of his latest labours and his martyrdom. It is also the point to which his travelling through Northern Greece converged, both on his second and his third missionary journeys. Thus whatever friendships he made at various times of his life were ranged in a kind of sym...
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