to them as such. But this opinion has no probability; for (1) had this been the case, he would not have been likely to begin his epistle by saying that he was ‘a servant of Jesus Christ,’ a name so odious to the Jews; and (2) if he had spoken of himself as a Christian, and had addressed his countrymen as himself a believer in Jesus as the Messiah, though regarding them as Jews, it is incredible that he did not make a more distinct reference to the principles of the Christian religion; that he used