In the chronological table, p. 138, the dates of the Epistles have
already been given and the points of the history indicated where they
come in. It is a pity the Epistles are not arranged in chronological
order in our Bibles. Their characteristics may be mentioned:

1 and 2 _Thessalonians_. Simple beginnings. Attitude
to Christ's second coming.
1 _Corinthians_. Picture of an apostolic church.
2 _Corinthians_. Paul's portrait of himself.
_Galatians_. Vehement polemic against Judaizers.
_Romans_. Paul's gospel.
_Philemon_. Example of Christian courtesy.
_Colossians_ and _Ephesians_. Paul's later gospel.
_Philippians_. Picture of Roman imprisonment.
1 _Timothy_ and _Titus_. Form of the church.
2 _Timothy_. The last scenes.

Ramsay places _Galatians_ before 1 and 2 _Corinthians_; compare p. 139
above.

116. Compare Shaw, _The Pauline Epistles_.

118. On Paul's style see Farrar's Excursus at the close of vol. i.
The comparison of it to that of Thucydides is more dignified than that
of the text, but less true.

119. Inspiration did not interfere with natural characteristics of
style. It made the writer not less but more himself, while of course
it imparted to the products of his pen a divine value and authority.

120-127. Howson's _Character of St. Paul_; Speer, _The Man Paul_;
Hausrath, 45-57; Baur's remarks (ii. 294 ff.) on his intellectual
character are very good. But the principal sources are 2 Corinthians
and Acts xx.

122. Farrar's treatment of Paul's bodily infirmities is a serious blot
on his book; for these are obtruded with a frequency and exaggeration
which produce an impression quite different from that made by the
references to them in Scripture. This is still truer of Baring-Gould's
_Study of St. Paul_. For a treatment of the same subject, realistic,
but full of sympathy and delicacy, see Monod. Ramsay is of opinion
that the "thorn in the flesh" was chronic malarial fever.

122 ff. _Illustrate these paragraphs fully from Scripture._

128. _Compare Paul with Livingstone and other missionaries._

CHAPTER VIII

On this subject compare Neander's _Planting of Christianity_, Book ii.,
ch. 7, and Schaff's _Church History_; also Bannerman's _Church of
Christ_. This chapter is only a piecing together of the information
scattered through 1 Corinthians. It would be well to get pupils to
seek out the passages of the Epistle which correspond to t