ISBN: 9780217527538

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1859. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... IX.--PAUL AT THESSALONICA. Acts xvii. 1-9. 1st & 2nd Epistles To The Thessalonians. The apostle had been beckoned into Macedonia by a vision, and that vision still haunted him. Every temple he beheld, and every form of idolatry he witnessed, brought back the picture. Help was needed everywhere in the province, and he had brought it. The cruel treatment at Philippi did not detain him from the farther prosecution of his labours. His spirit sank not, though he had been subjected to the scourge. That indignity was a severe trial to him--to few more than to him. The knout brings no disgrace to a Russian serf, and wheals are usually found on the backs of American slaves. But the lash must have been felt as an unspeakable ignominy by one of Paul''s refined and elevated temperament; and he afterwards characterized the treatment as shameful. But he bore it as did the Lord before him. He did not sink into sullenness, and feel self-degraded at such outrage done to him as a man, and such a violation of right inflicted on him as a Roman citizen. It did not stand out in solitary gloom and bitterness as-- One fatal remembrance, one sorrow that throws Its bleak shade alike o''er his joy and his woes; To which life nothing darker or brighter can bring, For which joy hath no balm, and affliction no sting. He left Philippi because it afforded no prospect of immediate usefulness. But he prosecuted his great work, and travelled south and west along the Egnatian road thirtythree miles to Amphipolis on the Strymonic gulf, but did not stay there; advanced thirty miles farther to Apollonia, but rested not there either; journeyed onwards other thirtyseven miles, and arrived at Thessalonica. This city, at the head of the Thermaic gulf, had then and has still a large population, and th... John Eadie, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Paul The Preacher; Or, A Popular And Practical Exposition Of His Discources And Speeches, As Recorded In The Acts Of The Apostles Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: R. Carter & Brothers in 1859 in 474 pages; Subjects: Bible; Religion / Biblical Studies / General; Religion / Biblical Biography / New Testament; Religion / Biblical Commentary / New Testament; Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General; Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament; Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament; Religion / Biblical Studies / Old Testament; Religion / Biblical Studies / New Testament;<

ISBN: 9780217527538

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III-SAUL AT ANTIOCH IN SYRIA. Acts xi. 22-26. Threatened assassination and divine command had sent Saul out of Jerusalem, and he went home to Tarsus. In that city, under the shadow of Mount Taurus, he might again recreate himself with Hellenic studies; and by intercourse with the philosophers who paced the gymnasium by the green banks of the cold and rapid Cydnus, he might learn what trains of thought were best adapted to work on the hearts of those who were " aliens from the commonwealth of Israel." The time was not lost, the apostle could not be idle-it was a season either of busy preparation, or of active missionary duty. He had hitherto come into conflict only with his own countrymen, whose prejudices he could instinctively comprehend, for he read them in his own past life. But he had been warned that another and very different field was to be occupied by him, and for which it behoved him, by every form of human discipline, to equip himself. Experiments upon the gentile population at Tarsus, either conducted by dialogue or more formal addresses, must have shown him how he could best serve the Master in making known His salvation to the pagan world. Though Saul was taught of the Spirit, he was also the pupil of experience; and what he saw and heard in his native province, either in its hilly regions orlevel shores-the feelings he encountered, the forms of antagonism he met with, the prevailing type of objection which the educated or uneducated heathen mind, Greek, Eoman, and aboriginal, presented-must have been studied by him, and must have afforded guidance in his subsequent evangelical labours. He could afterwards anticipate hostile argument-trace its origin, detect its fallacy, ay, and counterwork it, ere it had time to express itself. In Books Literary Collections~~General Paul-the-Preacher~~John-Eadie General Books LLC This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: R. Carter & Brothers in 1859 in 474 pages; Subjects: Bible; Religion / Biblical Studies / General; Religion / Biblical Biography / New Testament; Religion / Biblical Commentary / New Testament; Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General; Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament; Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament; Religion / Biblical Studies / Old Testament; Religion / Biblical Studies / New Testament;<

ISBN: 9780217527538

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III-SAUL AT ANTIOCH IN SYRIA. Acts xi. 22-26. Threatened assassination and divine command had sent Saul out of Jerusalem, and he went home to Tarsus. In that city, under the shadow of Mount Taurus, he might again recreate himself with Hellenic studies; and by intercourse with the philosophers who Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III-SAUL AT ANTIOCH IN SYRIA. Acts xi. 22-26. Threatened assassination and divine command had sent Saul out of Jerusalem, and he went home to Tarsus. In that city, under the shadow of Mount Taurus, he might again recreate himself with Hellenic studies; and by intercourse with the philosophers who paced the gymnasium by the green banks of the cold and rapid Cydnus, he might learn what trains of thought were best adapted to work on the hearts of those who were " aliens from the commonwealth of Israel." The time was not lost, the apostle could not be idle-it was a season either of busy preparation, or of active missionary duty. He had hitherto come into conflict only with his own countrymen, whose prejudices he could instinctively comprehend, for he read them in his own past life. But he had been warned that another and very different field was to be occupied by him, and for which it behoved him, by every form of human discipline, to equip himself. Experiments upon the gentile population at Tarsus, either conducted by dialogue or more formal addresses, must have shown him how he could best serve the Master in making known His salvation to the pagan world. Though Saul was taught of the Spirit, he was also the pupil of experience; and what he saw and heard in his native province, either in its hilly regions orlevel shores-the feelings he encountered, the forms of antagonism he met with, the prevailing type of objection which the educated or uneducated heathen mind, Greek, Eoman, and aboriginal, presented-must have been studied by him, and must have afforded guidance in his subsequent evangelical labours. He could afterwards anticipate hostile argument-trace its origin, detect its fallacy, ay, and counterwork it, ere it had time to express itself. In Books, Literary Collections~~General, Paul-the-Preacher~~John-Eadie, 999999999, Paul The Preacher, John Eadie, 0217527531, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<