THE

LIFE AND
AND EPISTLES

OF

ST. PAUL.

BY

THE REV. W. J. CONYBEARE, M.A.

LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE,

AND

THE REV. J. S. HOWSON, M.A.

PRINCIPAL OF THE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION, LIVERPOOL.

It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty that we should at all times and in all places give
tbanks unto Thee, O Lord, Holy Father, Almighty, Everlasting God, through Jesus Christ our Lord,
according to whose most true promise the Holy Ghost came down from heaven, ighting upon the
Apostles, to teach them, and to lead them to all truth; giving them boldness with fervent zeal con-
stantly to preach the Gospel to all nations; whereby we have been brought cut of darkness and error,
into the clear light and true knowledge of thee, and of thy Son Jesus Christ."-Proper Preface to the
Trisagium for Whitsunday.

Αφέντες τοὺς ἄλλους ἅπαντας, Παῦλον προστησώμεθα μόνον τοῦ λόγου συνίστορα,
κἂν τούτῳ θεωρήσωμεν οἶον ἐστι ψυχῶν ἐπιμέλεια. Ὡς ἂν δὲ ῥᾷστα τοῦτο γνοίημεν, τὶ
Παῦλος αὐτὸς περὶ Παύλου φησὶν ἀκούσωμεν. . . . Νομοθετεῖ δούλοις καὶ δεσπόταις,
ἄρχουσι καὶ ἀρχομένοις, ἀνδράσι καὶ γυναιξὶν, σοφίᾳ καὶ ἀμαθίᾳ· πάντων ὑπερμαχεί
πάντων ὑπερεύχεται . . . κῆρυξ ἐθνῶν, Ἰουδαίων προστάτης.
προστάτης.”GREG. NAZ. Oratio
Apologetica.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

SEVENTH EDITION.

NEW YORK:

CHARLES SCRIBNER, 124 GRAND STREET

1864.

LIST OF MAPS

IN

THE FIRST VOLUME.

MAP OF THE COUNTRIES ADJACENT TO THE MEDITERRANEAN.......

MAP OF NEIGHBOURHOOD OF LYSTRA AND DERBE, WITH ROMAN ROADS.. 189

Great Men of Great Periods.-Period of Christ's Apostles.--Jews, Greeks,
and Romans.-Religious Civilisation of the Jews.-Their History and its
Relation to that of the World.-Heathen Preparation for the Gospel.-
Character and Language of the Greeks.-Alexander.--Antioch and Alex-
andria.-Growth and Government of the Roman Empire.-Misery of Italy
and the Provinces.-Preparation in the Empire for Christianity.-Disper-
sion of the Jews, in Asia, Africa, and Europe.-Proselytes.-Provinces of
Cilicia and Judæa.-Their Geography and History.-Cilicia under the
Romans.-Tarsus.-Cicero.-Political Changes in Judæa.-Herod and
his Family.-The Roman Governors.-Conclusion

CHAPTER II.

Jewish Origin of the Church.-Sects and Parties of the Jews.-Pharisees
and Sadducees.-St. Paul a Pharisee.-Hellenists and Aramæans.-St.
Paul's Family Hellenistic but not Hellenising.-His Infancy at Tarsus.-
The Tribe of Benjamin.-His Father's Citizenship.-Scenery of the Place.
-His Childhood.-He is sent to Jerusalem.-State of Judæa and Jerusa-
lem.-Rabbinical Schools.-Gamaliel.-Mode of Teaching.-Synagogues.
-Student-Life of St. Paul.-His early Manhood.-First Aspect of the
Church-St. Stephen.-The Sanhedrin.-St. Stephen the Forerunner of
St. Paul.-His Martyrdom and Prayer

Note on the Libertines and the Citizenship of St. Paul

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