Excerpt from A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of St. Paul to the Galatians, I II Corinthians, Romans, and Ephesians: To Which Is Prefix'd, an Essay for the Understanding of St. Paul's Epistles, by Consulting St. Paul Himself Concern in; which made them eafily apprehend his' Meaning, and fee the Tetrclency and Force of his Difcourfe. But we having now at this Bittance no Informati n of the Occafion of his Writing, little or no Knowledge of the Temper and Circu'mllances thofe'he writ to were in, but what is to be gathered out of the Epifiles themfelves, it is not firange that many Things inf-them lie concealed to us, which. No doubt, they who were concerned in the Letter, underflood at firll tight. Add to this, thatin many, places, 'tis manifeil, he anfwers Letters fent, ' and Chieftions propofed to him which, if we had, would much better clear thofe Pafl'ages that relate to them, ' than all the learned Notes of Criticks and Commentators, who in After times fill us with their Conjectures for very often, as to the Matter in hand, they are nothing elfe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.