for instance (Acts 20:4, 5), if indeed they are not to be identified with the two brethren already mentioned. The patristic writers, followed by several modern commentators, see in this expression a desire on the part of the Apostle to fortify his teaching by the sanction of others: ‘Faciens eis pudorem, quod contra omnes sentiunt,’ says Victorinus. Such a motive seems alien to the whole spirit of this epistle, in which all human authority is set aside. The Apostle in fact dismisses the mention of
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