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say that he was crowned by martyrdom. Jerome, in volume 3, against Vigilantius, reports that his bones, along with the remains of Andrew and Luke, were transferred to Constantinople by the Emperor Constantine, which Nicephorus also has in book 10, chapter 11.

THE OCCASION.

The occasion must be gathered from the first chapter of this Epistle and from Acts 20. For the Apostle Paul, about to set out for Macedonia, left him at Ephesus so that, by staying there, he might resist the Nomodidascalis teachers of the law, that is, the doctors of the law and other corrupters of sound doctrine. For Satan was everywhere lying in wait for the sincerity of the faith through Mosaic ceremonies and philosophical delusions. Thus the Galatians had been made semi-Jews, and the Corinthians, in the pagan manner, tolerated any vices with impunity. The Apostle feared similar corruptions in the Ephesian Church; therefore, so that he might place an obstacle to these, he had left him among them as a diligent defender of sound doctrine. Furthermore, in that Church, the number of ministers necessary for teaching the Gospel had not yet been established; no one could have established these more rightly than he who had received the authority for choosing them divinely, such as the Apostles were then, and among them Paul, who, while he was being called away to Macedonia, entrusted this care to him, and for this reason, he warns him what he must especially look for in the election, lest he impose hands quickly on anyone, and in imposing them, he shows diligently who must be admitted.