your christianity is very well known in the world. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you as expert in that which is good, as unpractis'd in what is evil.

to this very day we suffer both hunger, thirst, and penury: we are buffeted from place to place, as vagabonds:

but if the Lord pleases, I will visit you very soon; and then I shall try, not what these boasters can say, but what they can do:

Your levity is very indecent: don't you know that a little leaven infects the whole mass?

Don't you know, that your bodies are parts of Christ's mystical body? now, how can that which is Christ's, be made the property of a very creature?

I shall now tell you a very great secret: we shall not all of us sleep, but we shall all be changed,

for I have a very fair and promising opportunity given me of propagating the gospel, tho' there are many opposers.

besides, their minds were greatly prejudiced: for that very veil would still have obstructed the understanding of the old testament, unless it had been taken away by Christ.

now he that hath prepared us for this very state, is God, who hath given us the spirit as a pledge of it.

who tho' labouring under great trial of affliction, and extreme poverty, have notwithstanding with exceeding cheerfulness contributed very liberally: being forward of themselves to the utmost of their power,

so am I: are they ministers of Christ? is it my vanity? I am more so: in toilsome labours I surpass them, in stripes I am exceedingly beyond them, in prisons I have been oftner, and frequently in the very jaws of death.

only they recommended to us to get collections for the poor in Judea: which I was very careful to do.

what benedictions did you then pour out upon me! for I bear you witness, that, had it been practicable, you would have pulled out your very eyes, and given them to me.

I wish I could be present this very moment with you, and suit my discourse accordingly, for I stand in doubt what to think of you.

these words contain a very mystical sense, I mean in reference to Christ and the church.

As to the state of my affairs, and health, Tychicus our dear brother, and faithful minister in the Lord, will very particularly acquaint you with them.

However, I hope by the favour of the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you very soon, that I may have some encouragement by knowing the state of your affairs:

nay, I trust in the Lord, that I myself too shall visit you very soon.

have cordially reliev'd me. Epaphras a servant of Christ, and your countryman, salutes you, who is always very earnest in his prayers, that you may be perfectly acquainted with, and constantly observe,

the very men who have persecuted the Lord Jesus, and the prophets even to death; who have persecuted us; they who are regardless of pleasing the deity, and are enemies to all mankind;

for you very well know, that the day of the Lord steals on like a thief in the night.

but when he was at Rome, he enquired for me very diligently, and found me.

the Lord grant he may obtain mercy from him in that day, for you know very well what services de did me at Ephesus.

Endeavour to come to me very soon:

to the pure all things are pure: but to corrupt infidels nothing is pure; whose very mind and conscience is polluted.

I Paul give it under my own hand, I will repay it; not to say, that you owe your very self to me.

and officiate in the sanctuary, which was a gross representation of that in heaven, agreeable to the order given by God to Moses, when he projected the tabernacle, "be very exact, said he, in following the model which was laid before thee in the mount."

they desired therefore a better, that is, an heavenly country: so that God is very justly stiled their God: for he had appointed a city for them.

you believe there is but one God, very well: the demons believe as much, and tremble."

the meaning is very comprehensive. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.

then I fell at his seet to worship him: but he said to me, "forbear: I am the servant of God, as you and your brethren are, that bear testimony to Jesus: worship God: for to give testimony to Jesus, is the very design of prophecy."