A NEW

LITERAL TRANSLATION

FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK,

OF ALL THE

APOSTOLICAL EPISTLES.

WITH

A COMMENTARY, AND NOTES,

PHILOLOGICAL, CRITICAL, EXPLANATORY, AND PRACTICAL.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL.

By JAMES MACKNIGHT, D. D.

AUTHOR OF A HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS, &c.

THE SECOND EDITION.IN SIX VOLUMES.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROWS
AND WILLIAM CREECH, AND OGLE AND AIKMAN, EDINBURGH.

1806.

CONTENTS

OF

THE THIRD VOLUME.

GALATIANS, p. 1.

Efay V. On the covenant with Abraham, in which it was

promised, fect. 1. That God would greatly bless him.—2,

That he would make him the father of many nations.-3.

That he would give to him and to his feed, the land of Ca-

naan for an everlasting poffeffion.-4. That he would be to

him and to them, a God in their generations.-5. That in

him, all the families of the earth fhonld be bleffed.-6. That

in his feed, all the nations of the earth should be bleffed.

Essay VI. On justification. Sect 1. Of juftification, as ex-

plained by Paul.-2. Of juftification, as explained by James.

3. Of the justification of the heathen.-4. Shewing that

faith is with propriety made the condition of juftification.-

5. Of the time when believers are justified.

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Preface to Galatians.-Sec 1. Of the time when, and of the
perfon by whom the Galatians were converted.-2. Of the
time when this epiftle was written.---3. Of the occafion of
writing it.4. Shewing that the decree of the council of
Jerufalem, refpected the converted profelytes only.

EPHESIANS, p. 212.

Preface.—Sect. 1. Of the introduction of the Christian reli-
gion into Ephesus.-2. That this epistle was directed not to
the Laodiceans, but to the Ephefians.-3. Of the occafion
of writing it.-4. Of the perfons for whom it was defigned,