[75:5] 2 Cor. xi. 26,—­[Greek:  potamon].

[76:1] Acts xv. 38.

[76:2] Acts xv. 39.

[76:3] Acts xiv. 6.

[76:4] Acts xiv. 23.

[76:5] [Greek:  Cheirotonesantes de autois kat’ ekklesian presbuterous].—­The interpretation given in the text is sanctioned by the highest authorities.  See Rothe’s “Anfange der Christlichen Kirche,” p. 150; Alford on Acts xiv. 23; Burton’s “Lectures,” i. 150; Baumgarten’s “Acts of the Apostles,” Acts xiv. 23; Litton’s “Church of Christ,” p. 595.

[76:6] Acts xiv. 27.

[76:7] They set out on the mission probably in A.D. 44, and returned to Antioch in A.D. 50.  The Council of Jerusalem took place the year following.

[77:1] Acts xiii. 48.

[77:2] Acts xiv. 13.

[77:3] Acts xiii. 6-8.

[77:4] Acts xiii. 50.

[77:5] Acts xiv. 2.

[78:1] Acts xiv. 19.

[78:1] 2 Tim. iii. 10, 11.

[79:1] Acts xv. 1.

[79:2] This inference was indeed admitted.  See Acts xv. 5, 24.

[79:3] Gal. v. 2-4, vi. 13, 14.

[79:4] Acts xvi. 31; John iii. 36.

[80:1] Luke xxiii. 43.

[80:2] Ps. ii. 12.

[80:3] Acts xv. ii.

[81:1] Acts xv. 2.

[81:2] Acts xv. 23, 24, 41.

[81:3] Acts xvi. 4.

[81:4] Paul and Barnabas, with the other deputies, were sent “to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders” (Acts xv. 2); “when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders” (Acts xv. 4); and the decrees are said to have been ordained “of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem” (Acts xvi. 4); but not one of these statements necessarily implies that these rulers were exclusively elders of the Church of Jerusalem.

[82:1] It has been argued by Burton ("Lectures,” vol. i. p. 122), that the first visit of Paul to Jerusalem after his conversion took place about the time of one of the great festivals, as he is said, on the occasion, to have “disputed against the Grecians” (Acts ix. 29), who were likely then to have been very numerous in the city.  If he arrived now at the time of the same festival, the interval must have been precisely fourteen years.

[82:2] Gal. ii. 1.  Some make these fourteen years to include the three years mentioned Gal. i. 18, but this interpretation does violence to the languages of the apostle.  The system of chronology here adopted requires no such forced expositions.  Paul came to Jerusalem three years after his conversion, that is, in A.D. 37; and fourteen years after, that is, in A.D. 51, he was at this Synod.

[82:3] Acts ix. 26.

[83:1] Acts xxi. 20.

[83:2] Acts xxi. 21.

[83:3] Acts xv. 5.

[83:4] Gal. ii. 4.  It is here taken for granted that the visit to Jerusalem, mentioned in the second chapter of the Epistle to the Galatians, is the same as that described in the fifteenth of Acts.  Paul says that he went up “by revelation” (Gal. ii. 2),—­a statement from which it appears that he was divinely instructed to adopt this method of settling the question.