History of the Christian Church, Volume I: Apostolic Christianity. A.D. 1-100.

churches, who were presented to the emperor Domitian as descendants of David and relations of Jesus. Hegesippus in Euseb. III. 1 ...

testimony that thou art just, and art no respecter of persons. Persuade therefore the people not to be led astray by Jesus, for ...

into Samaria, as had been prophetically hinted by the Lord in the conversation at Jacob’s well.^339 But there we meet also the f ...

I. Sources. The authentic sources: The Epistles of Paul, and the Acts of the Apostles 9:1–30 and 13 to 28. Of the Epistles of P ...

TheCorrespondence of Paul and Seneca, mentioned by Jerome (De vir. ill. c. 12) and Augustin (Ep. ad Maced. 153, al. 54), and oft ...

F. Bungener: St. Paul, sa vie, son oeuvre et ses épitres. Paris, 1865. A. Hausrath: Der Apostel Paulus.Heidelb. 1865; 2d ed. 187 ...

V. Commentaries. The Commentators on Paul’s Epistles (in whole or in part) are so numerous that we can only mention some of the ...

the rights of a Roman citizen. He received a learned Jewish education at Jerusalem in the school of the Pharisean Rabbi, Gamalie ...

and throws a flood of light on obscure passages.^347 He was quite familiar with the typical and allegorical methods of interpret ...

Greek philosophers of different schools and addressed them from the Areopagus with consummate wisdom and adaptation to the situa ...

who was justly condemned to death. And he acted according to his conviction. He took the most prominent part in the persecution ...

His "bodily presence was weak, and his speech contemptible" (of no value), in the superficial judgment of the Corinthians, who m ...

vessel and his strength was made perfect in weakness.^363 But all the more must we admire the moral heroism which turned weaknes ...

to the ground. He saw and heard, he trembled and obeyed, he believed and rejoiced. As he rose from the earth he saw no man. Like ...

own thoughts, through Samaria, Galilee, and across Mount Hermon, he had ample time for reflection, and we may well imagine how t ...

to the will of God as expressed in his revealed law, and implies life eternal as its reward. The honest and earnest pursuit of r ...

Gentiles.^379 Then followed an uninterrupted activity of more than a quarter of a century, which for interest and for permanent ...

Scriptures and showed him a more excellent way. "Only one haven of salvation is left for our souls," he says, "and that is the m ...

False Explanations. Various attempts have been made by ancient heretics and modern rationalists to explain Paul’s conversion in ...

But the record says nothing about thunderstorm and fever, and both combined could not produce such an effect upon any sensible m ...