Saint paul biography ebook
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The Apostle: The Life of Paul
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“Paul learned to debate in the question-and-answer style known to the ancient world as the diatribe, and to expound, for a rabbi was not only part preacher but also part lawyer, ready to prosecute or defend those accused of breaking the sacred Law.” (source)
“Athens had rejected him. He could not know that his speech would go down to posterity beside the Funeral Oration of Pericles and the Philippics of Demosthenes as one of the great speeches of Athens. He could not know that whole books would be written about it or that in a few hundred years the Parthenon would become a Christian church; and that nineteen centuries on, when Greece became once more a sovereign state, the national flag that flies beside the ruins of the Parthenon would be lowered to half-mast each Good Friday and raised on Easter Day in honor of Christ’s resurrection.” (source)
“Gamaliel had advised toleration; Simon Peter and other disciples of Jesus worshipped at the temple and continued to obey the Law. But Paul saw, as Stephen saw, that the old and the new were incompatible; man was saved either by the temple sacrifices and obedience to the Law, or by faith in Jesus. The old must destroy the new, or be destro
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THE LIFE OF ST. PAUL
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Map illustrating the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles
BY
PROF. JAMES STALKER, D.D.
AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST"
WITH FOREWORD BY
WILBERT W. WHITE, D.D.
PRESIDENT OF THE BIBLE TEACHERS' TRAINING SCHOOL, NEW YORK
NEW AND REVISED EDITION
New York —— Chicago —— Toronto
Fleming H. Revell Company
London and Edinburgh
Copyright, 1912, by
AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
By Wilbert W. White, D.D.
When asked to write a foreword to Dr. Stalker's "Life of St. Paul," I thought of two things: first the impression which I had received from a sermon that I heard Dr. Stalker preach a good many years ago in his own pulpit in Glasgow, Scotland, and secondly, the honor conferred in this privilege of writing a foreword to one of Dr. Stalker's books.
I felt sure before even glancing at the pages that I should be pleased and profited by their perusal.
The first thing that I did was to glance over the pages for the headings of chapters and the summaries of paragraphs. I found the arrangement admirable, and would advise those into whose hands this fine volume may come to follow this plan.
The only sentence apart from the headings which I read in the aforesaid preview w