Dr Farrar's suggestion for the link of connexion is possible, that St Paul's second arrest took place at Troas, and that such an one as Alexander the coppersmith could easily have procured his arrest, and when suddenly seized by the lictors at Troas he could have had no time to take away his possessions. On 1 Timothy 1:20 we have seen that there is no particular reason to identify this Alexander with the one mentioned there. Rather the addition of -coppersmith" as a distinguishing title suggests the opposite. -The smith" would be perhaps more certainly correct; the word being quite as commonly used for -blacksmith."

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