Commentarii in Epistolas D. Pauli ad Timoth. ad Titum, et ad Philem. facili et perspicua methodo conscripti. A D. Benedicto Aretio bernensi theologo. Cum indice rerum memorabilium quae in hisce conti

His circumcision.

Furthermore, because he had a Greek father, it is probable that he was not circumcised in infancy: from which the religion and profession of Christ could have freed him later, had not the Apostle, by a certain counsel of the Holy Spirit, circumcised him for the certain benefit of the Churches: this is what Saint Luke indicates not obscurely in the fifteenth chapter of Acts, namely for the sake of the Jews who lived in those places and knew that he was born of a Greek father and for that reason was uncircumcised, whom he took and circumcised so that they might bear him and more easily admit the Apostle's doctrine.

Apostolic office.

From that time, therefore, he was either a companion of the Apostle’s travels or, when the Apostle was hindered, he was sent as a legate to inspect various Churches, so that he himself seems to have performed the office of an Apostle. He is the Apostle's companion in Acts, chapters 16 and 20. He fulfills a legation, being sent by the Apostle himself, in Acts 19, 22, when he is sent with Erastus into Macedonia; he was sent to the Corinthians so that he might recall to their memory the ways of the Apostle, as it is in 1 Corinthians 4, verse 17; he was thus sent to the Philippian Church so that he might inspect their affairs, Philippians chapter 2, verse 19. To the Thessalonian Church, that he might confirm it in the faith and strengthen it against the scandal of the cross, 1 Thessalonians 3, verse 2. From which places it sufficiently appears that he made use of his works