The question about eating of blood stated and examin'd; in answer to two dissertations in a book entitled, Revelation examin'd with candour [by Patrick Delany] / [John Averill].

  • John Averell
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1732
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Credit: The question about eating of blood stated and examin'd; in answer to two dissertations in a book entitled, Revelation examin'd with candour [by Patrick Delany] / [John Averill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and St. Paul's arrival there afterwards, when he came from Corinth. Which he fays, was in the eleventh year of Claudius, or in the 50th year of Chrift. So that he allows but eight years at moft, from the time of St. Paul's conver- Hon to his going to Jcrujalcm from Antioch, about the apof* toiick decree; and yet he fuppofes this was the time mention¬ ed in the fecond chapter of the Galatians, which c>t. Paul cxprefsly ailerts to be upwards of leventeen, or fouiteen years at leaft, after his converiion. Thefe are fo many contradictions to himfelf, and to truth, that I have for this reafon declined taking any notice of him, or laying any ftrefs upon his authority; though in the general fetting afide his chronological miftakes, he is a learned and judicious writer* A TABLE reprefenting the date of St. PauVs travels accord > P' 35 38 44 46 49 51 S3 A£ts ix. 30 .ix. Gal. i. 21. Acts xi. 26. xi. 30 • xiii. 14. xiv. xv. z6. xvm. 1 xviil. 21,22. Gal, iL t . ing to the foregoing account. SAUL’s conversion. From Damafcus goes into Arabia. Returns ^ then after three years (Gal. 1. 18.) Goes up to JerttJaltm to lee Peter. Preaches about Syria and Cilicia. _ Brought to Antioch in Syria by Barnabas. Vv here they ftay a whole year. . ... , Sent up from thence to Jemfalcm with contributions, anc* at their return receive their million to the Gentiles. After various travels come to Antioch in Pijidia, where St Tanl preach’d to the Gentiles l profelytes ol the gate] in the fynagogue. Proceed to Iionium, &c. and return to Antioch in Syria, from whence they fet out. Being lent up a fecond time from thence, to the council at Jerufalem about oblerving the Mofaic law, they de¬ clare the converfion of the Gentiles [profelytes ot the gate] as they pals thro’ Phanice and Samaria. After their return to Antioch with the decree, they part. In St. Pattis 2d apoftolical journey thro' Syria, &c. TheJJd- Ionic a and Athens, he comes to Corinth, where he meets AqniUa banilhed from Rome by the decree of Claudius. Staies here a year and half, and writes his two epiftles to the The{[aim tans. Goes to the paflbvcr at Jerstfalem,by revelation,with 'Barnabas and Titus, whom he had probably met with in his way thither Here he communicates privately and to them of reputation, that gofpei he had now fuccefsfnlly preach'd among the [idolatrous] Gentiles in TheJJdknica and Athene I / FINIS.