many links with the Acts, it will be superfluous to `prove' anything regarding 2 Corinthians. Both epistles go

together. Accordingly we pass on to:

EPISTLE.-

`Ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I

persecuted the church of God, and wasted it' (The R.V. translates it, `made havoc') (Gal. 1:13).

ACTS.-

`As for Saul, he made havock (R.V. translates `laid waste') of the church' (Acts 8:3).

EPISTLE.-

`And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly

zealous of the traditions of my fathers' (Gal. 1:14).

ACTS.-

`I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet

of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous

toward God, as ye all are this day' (Acts 22:3).

EPISTLE.-

`When Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed ... And the

other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their

dissimulation' (Gal. 2:11,13).

ACTS.-

`Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul: and when he had found him, he brought him unto

Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church' (Acts

EPISTLE.-

`Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. And

I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles

... But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised ... why

compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews (to Judaize)?' (Gal 2:1 to 3,14).

ACTS.-

`And certain men which came down from Judæa taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised

after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small

dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of

them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question' (Acts 15:1,2).

EPISTLE.-

`That no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith' (Gal.

`Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law' (Gal. 5:4).

ACTS.-

`And by Him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law

of Moses' (Acts 13:39).

The epistle to the Galatians abounds with links that associate its teaching with the Acts. We have not forgotten

the problems that await us in the parallel passages Acts 15 and Galatians 2, but that they are parallel, if not identical,

calls for no further proof.

EPISTLE.-

`Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus' (1 Thess. 1:1).

ACTS.-

`At midnight Paul and Silas prayed ... they came to Thessalonica' (Acts 16:25 and 17:1).

EPISTLE.-

`For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain: but even after that we

had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God

to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention' (1 Thess. 2:1,2).