that we set it down in its place--"Evil Spirit: Jesus, Whom Paul preacheth". We are

now well started, and soon the hospitality of Lydia and of Aquila and Priscilla are noted,

and at the last minute we find that minute perfectness necessary to confirm the whole

scheme--the two references to Phrygia and the region or country of Galatia. We now

have the main outline of the new section before us, and soon we have the joy of seeing it

grow in beauty before our eyes. And not only so, but we have also exchanged a barren

list of geographical terms for the living issues of apostolic witness and conflict.

What has taken a few minutes to recount here represents, of course, in practice as

many hours of search and frustration. The pleasure which the reader has shared with us

in the recounting cannot, therefore, be anything like as keen as the joy that comes from

the initial discovery. Truly the searching of the Scripture brings its own reward, and it is

not without reason that the central member stresses the "nobility" of the Bereans, who

searched to see whether these things were so. We have deliberately taken up a certain

amount of space in introducing this structure, as so many readers ask us "how it is done".

There is no royal road to success, and it is most important that there should be no

invention. There are usually one or two obvious indications placed by the Lord on the

surface, ready to give the lead to any who will follow. The structure of the passage is as

A | 16: 6-11. |

a | 6. PHRYGIA, a country of GALATIA.

b | 6-11. THE VISION. MACEDONIA.

B | 16: 12-40. |

c | 12-15. PHILIPPI. Lydia.

Come into my house.

d | 16-18. PHILIPPI. Spirit of Python.

The way of Salvation.

e | 19-40. PHILIPPI. Result: Prison and salvation.

C | 17: 1-14. THESSALONICA and BEREA. "More noble."

A | 17: 15 - 18: 23. |

b | 17: 15 - 18: 17. THE VISION. ATHENS and CORINTH.

a | 18: 18-23. The country of GALATIA and PHRYGIA.

B | 18: 24 - 19: 20. |

c | 18: 24-28. EPHESUS. Aquila and Priscilla.

They took him unto them.

d | 19: 1-16. EPHESUS. Evil spirits.

Jesus Whom Paul preacheth.

e | 19: 17-20. EPHESUS. Result: Name of Lord magnified.

We cannot deal with the vision of the man of Macedonia without going on to speak of

the witness at Philippi. This, however, demands a complete article, and we will therefore

content ourselves here with presenting the structure of this new section, and adding a few

words with regard to Phrygia and the country of Galatia (16: 6, and 18: 18-23).