Category: Biographies

The Life of St. Paul

1. The Man for the Time.--There are some men whose lives it is impossible to study without receiving the impression that they were expressly sent into the world to do a work required by the juncture of history on which they fell. The story of the Reformation, for example, cann...

Chapters

6. Chapter 6

79-88. THE FIRST JOURNEY. 79, 80. His Companions. 81. Cyprus. Change of his Name. 82-87. The Mainland of Asia Minor. 83. Desertion of Mark. 84. Antioch-in-Pisidia and Iconium. 8...

10. Chapter 10

163, 164. RETURN TO JERUSALEM. Prophecy of Approaching Imprisonment. 165-168. ARREST. 166. Tumult in Temple; 167. Paul before the Sanhedrim; 168. Plot of Zealots. 169-172. IMPRI...

2. Chapter 2

14-16. DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH. His Love of Cities. 17, 18. HOME. 19-26. EDUCATION. 19. Roman citizenship; 20. Tent-making; 21, 22. Knowledge of Greek Literature; 23-26. Rabbini...

7. Chapter 7

115-119. HIS WRITINGS. 115, 116. Principal Literary Period. 117. Form of his Writings. 118. His Style. 119. Inspiration. 120-127. HIS CHARACTER. 121. Combination of Natural and...

4. Chapter 4

51-53. SOJOURN IN ARABIA. 54-58. FAILURE OF MAN'S RIGHTEOUSNESS. 56. Failure of the Gentiles. 57. Failure of the Jews. 58. The Fall the ultimate Cause of Failure. 59-65. THE RIG...

9. Chapter 9

146-148. THE QUESTION AT ISSUE. 149-153. THE SETTLEMENT OF IT. 149, 150. By Peter; 151. By Paul; 152, 153. By the Council of Jerusalem. 154-156. Attempt to unsettle it. 157, 158...

8. Chapter 8

128, 129. THE EXTERIOR AND THE INTERIOR VIEW OF HISTORY. 130-143. A CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN A HEATHEN CITY. 131. The Place of Meeting. 132, 133. The Persons Present. 134-137. The Se...

3. Chapter 3

37, 38. Severity of the Persecution. 39-42. Kicking against the Goad. 43, 44. The Vision of Christ. 45-48. Effect of his Conversion on his Thinking. 49, 50. Its Effect on his De...

1. Chapter 1

1. The Man for the Time.--There are some men whose lives it is impossible to study without receiving the impression that they were expressly sent into the world to do a work req...

5. Chapter 5

68-70. Eight years of Comparative Inactivity at Tarsus. Gentiles admitted to Christian Church. 71, 72. Paul discovered by Barnabas and brought to Antioch. His Work there. 73-78....

12. Chapter 12

On the external features of the period embraced in this chapter compare the corresponding pages of Hausrath; on the internal features see Principal Rainy's lecture on Paul in _T...

16. Chapter 16

The aim of this Handbook, as of _The Life of Jesus Christ_ in the same series, being to show at a single glance the general course of the life and the principal objects it touch...

20. Chapter 20

Acts xx. 4-16. Paul the Hirer of Laborers for Christ's Vineyard: the Unwearied Preacher (_Troas_). " " 17-38. The Man of Heart (_Miletus_). " xxii. Final Effort to save his Coun...

14. Chapter 14

On the subject of this chapter see the works on Pauline Theology by Pfleiderer, Bruce, Du Bose, Titius and Stevens, also the relevant portions of any of the Handbooks of New Tes...

17. Chapter 17

In the chronological table, p. 138, the dates of the Epistles have already been given and the points of the history indicated where they come in. It is a pity the Epistles are n...

18. Chapter 18

On this subject compare Neander's _Planting of Christianity_, Book ii., ch. 7, and Schaff's _Church History_; also Bannerman's _Church of Christ_. This chapter is only a piecing...

13. Chapter 13

The conversion of Paul is one of the strong apologetic positions of Christianity. See this worked out in Lyttelton's _Conversion of St. Paul_. But it might be worked out afresh...

19. Chapter 19

The criticism which seeks to disintegrate the New Testament writings and set the apostles against one another is founded on a revival of the claim of the Judaizers that their pr...

15. Chapter 15

11. Chapter 11