14 But I truft I fhall fhortly fee thee, and we hall fpeak face to face. Peace be to thee. Our friends falute thee. Greet the friends by name. 66 Ver. 14.1. I hope ftraightway to fee thee. Lardner conjectures that John did actually vifit Caius, and adds; "I please myself with the fuppofition that his journey was not in vain. I imagined that "Diotrephes fubmitted and acquiefced in the advices and admo、 “ nitions of the apoftle. Of this I have no affurance. However I “ may add, neither doth any one elfe know the contrary.” Canon vol. iii. p. 312. ... 2. The friends falute thee. Our tranflators have inserted the word our, in this claufe without any authority. Οι φίλοι, The friends. This appellation is fingular, being no where elfe found in fcripture. But it I 14 For I hope fraightway to fee thee, (xa, 212.) and fo we shall speak face to face. Peace BE to thee. The friends HERE falute thee. Salute the friends by name. › 14 Befides, it is needlefs to write thefe things, for I hope foon to fee thee. And fo we shall speak face to face freely concerning them. Peace be to thee, which is my apoftolical benediction. The Chriftians with me wish thee health and happiness. In my name wifh health and happiness to the Chriftians with thee, as if I named them particularly. it applieth excellently to the primitive Chriftians, as it denoteth in the ftrongest manner the love which, in the first ages, fubfifted among the true difciples of Chrift. Let it not then be pretended that the gospel does not recommend private friendship. 3. Salute the friends by name. The apoftle, by fending a falutation to the faithful disciples of Chrift, who were in the church of which John was a member, and who were living together in great love, fhewed his affection for them, and encouraged them to perfevere in the truth. : A NEW SECT. I. The Hiftory of Jude the Apostle, and Brother of James. IN the catalogue which Luke gives of the apostles, chap. vi. 14, 15. James the Son of Alpheus, Simon called Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James, are mentioned. In the catalogue, Acts i. 13. we have the fame perfons named, and in the fame order. But in the catalogue, Matt. x. 3. in the place of Judas, there is Lebbeus whofe firname was Thaddeus; and in Mark iii. 18. Thaddeus fimply. Wherefore, as all the evangelifts agree that there were only twelve apostles, we must suppose that Judas the brother of James, was firnamed Lebbeus and Thaddeus. -The appellation of the brother of James was given to Judas, probably because James was the elder brother, and because, after our Lord's afcenfion, James became a person of confiderable note among the apoftles, and was highly esteemed by the Jewish believers. In In the preface to the epistle of James, fect. 1. we have shewn that James the fon Alpheus was our Lord's brother or cousingerman. From this it follows, that Judas the brother of James flood in the fame relation to Chrift. Accordingly we find James and Jofes, and Simen and Judas, expressly called the brethren of Jefus, Matt. xiii. 55. Mark vi. 3.—We have no account of the time and manner, in which Judas the brother of James became Chrift's difciple. But the hiftory of his election to the apoftlefhip is given, Luke vi. 13. Perhaps, like fome others of the apostles, he was originally a follower of the Baptist, on whose testimony to Jesus, he believed him to be the Messiah. None of the evangelifts have said any thing of Judas after he became an apostle, except John who tells us, that when our Lord fpoke what is recorded, John xiv. 21. Judas faith to him,— ver. 22. Lord how is it that thou wilt manifeft thyself to us and not to the world? 23. Jefus answered and faid to him, If a man love me he will keep my words, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him; meaning, that after his refurrection, he would fhew himself alive to his apostles; and that he and his Father, by the fpiritual gifts bestowed on them, would make their abode with them; that is, would fhew that they were present with them in all their miniftrations. Accordingly, Judas the apoftle was one of thofe to whom Jefus appeared, at different times, after his refurrection. He was alfo one of the 120 upon whom the Holy Ghoft defcended in the visible shape of flames of fire, on the memorable day of Pentecoft.-Being therefore an eye-witnefs, and endowed with the Holy Ghost, he no doubt, as Lardner remarks, joined his brethren apostles in witneffing their Master's refurrection from the dead, and shared with them in the reproaches and sufferings, which befel them on that account. Lardner conjectures, that Judas the apostle was an husbandman before he became Chrift's difciple; founding his conjecture on a paffage of the apoftolical conftitutions, where the apostles are made to fay, "Some of us are fishermen, others "tent makers, others husbandmen." He adds, " undoubtedly feveral of the apoftles were fishermen. But by the latter part of the fentence no more may be meant, than that there "was |