MIDDLE
0¥
THE
of
progress
through
Syria
as
far
as
com-
pany,
have reached us,
the
St
Paul
the
title
of
apostle.
This
title
is,
the
first
order,
almost
superior
the ambrosia
of the
privi-
lege,
superior
to
him
founder
Christianity.
Jesus
its
origin
century Papias
and St
tradition lost
none.
of
the
the Apostle
period
embraced
in
this
yolume
may
open
ceded
the series of
in profane
history allied
of
ancient
texts,
? It
must
not
as long
possible.
AVhen
history
and
legend
intermingle,
will
biographical
details.
appreciated
them,
than
could
the
most
circumstantial
narrations
repeat
here
my
these documents
given in
a
differing
from
of
Jesus.
It
is
to
this
Gospel
a
connected
work, wrote
their char-
acter, there
of the apostle, and on
his
last
visit
to
that
to
leave
these proofs
bishops
quarrelled,
and
some-
times
of apostle,^
and is
period
leave
it
is
evident
that
if
Lucas
is
really
the
author
Ejaistles
would
hardly
appear
prob-
able
in
a
toler-
Greek
translations
copied
written
imme-
diately
interval
elapsed
between
the
of Syria.
why did
appears
tone
of
the
book
accords
could
annoy
the
Romans.
the Roman
i)ftiv
Trpay-
See
especially
all
others,
of
its
sketch
the
history of the
of the
legendary
lore
finds
wide
cre-
dence.
Supernatural
we should
;
gerated
facts
Peter.
The
words
which he puts in the mouth of his heroes, although
skilfully
style,
and characteristic of the author himself rather than those to
whom
1),
and his
sur les
Apostolique,
at
Jerusalem,
is
perfectly
the
Galatians.
According
to
As
to
the
more
prominent
men
when Cephas
he
was
wrong.
At
every
one
merits our j)refer-
The
two
orators
here
make
all events,
decree,
promul-
chapter of
to
a
ence of
The
abstinence
the
who,
Gentiles and
Homilies
Pseudo-Clem.
by
St
Paul.
It
is
always
controlled
and
corrected
by
by
the
fourth.
Is
be
defective
as
it
to
without, however, being
too confident that
from
similar
interpretations
would
possible
events
influence
where
they
would
be
most
effective
admit
burden
miraculous
agency,
appeal
is
compassed
ordinary
conditions
we
know
nesses
the
of perfec-
faggot she
would be
always so ;
angry and
passionate man.
free
libert} , and with no
•crowded,
fond of
historical
writers
do.
Had
French Revolution
of
culture
to
value when
we have
this
would,
indeed,
be
a
problems,
a
question
1
it
is
neither
.twenty
times
true
criticism
than
this great
mind.
a
after
the
manner
latter
class
will
increase
suifer
to
all
the
time
knowing
-and
everywhere,
in
any
sons
of
God
Charity
? How
could
we
the vulgar
cle Paul,
fixed
hope.
died,
proved
to the
mated.^ To
Jesus was
to happen
the
that the
prophet
was
no
more.^ Death is so absurd a thing when it smites the
man
of
believe
in
the
on
the
part
but
the
recollection
sent to allow
him to the
say that he
should die, that
of
death.
different; but
the received
dogma of the
difficult to
that
during
one
hour
all
the
work
of
the
Christian
conscience
the
tradition
are
without
a
rabbet.
These
chambers
had
no
locks
secured
profaners
on
the
Sunday
morning,
1
Matt,
xxvii.
60
as his
doubt
stained
with
blood,
and
which
''John XX.
from
her
desire
to
clasp
beloved corpse.
the only
Jesus.
me. ^
Iler
to one
subsequently
attributed
angel of
of
the
tomb.^
In
the
that
the
women
had
seen
^
having
the law
than the others.
would
be
a
disagreeable
few
hundreds
who were
his
journey
through
the
with
they
their beloved
abandon
of
pleasant
conversation,
and,
cheered
by
some
which
he
had
heard.
that
remained
Jesus comes
to their
they were assembled
mark
of
the
nails,
and
on
his
of
the
spear
and
blage.
You
would
only
cause
pain
not seen
eucharistic
miracle
that
he
consisting
in
believing
Dc Viris
 
—SECOND
of
his
disciples
At
the
them so in his
of
some
the solemnities the
had received
country,
and
they
re-
turned
accordingly.*
diminish
 
At every
step they
hill on which
joy
lost,
death
would
be
mind
this
short
henceforth
fire,
is
oimtradictcd
scenes
verses
of
consistent
a
very
striking
manner,
by
Luke,
sistency in
their stories.
themselves. The
at
forty
days.
we con-
so
beloved
his
actual
life
of
your
sight.^
body,
passing
material
body
by
the
disciples
lem,
so
done
so,
nothing
would
fictions required
recent miracle of
found iu Matt.
the following.
sequence of
miracle.
or six
admiration liis
striking,
takes
place
annually
at
Jerusalem.
The
orthodox
Greeks
week
preceding
theif
Easter,
takes
away
of
were unworthy
of
J.
tomb,
and
slij^jDed
we may
we
should
see
therein
of
chances
the
little
ones
only
serve
commence
thirty-three,
or
any
more
the frightful
and
fourth
centuries,
Galilee
was
altogether
of Christiani y
com-
natural,
to
this
period
that
appear-
suddenly
recital. The chronological order of the visions,
on
precision, leads
ii.
6 ?
8
which
thou
hast
sucked  
began
were
termed
•cousin-german
of
James
gives
mind. Later, it Avas
should no more
said, Jesus
conceived
as
in the battles
in
friends. Sometimes
mouth
of
Jesus
was
regarded
They
thought
that
in
of this Spirit.''
became more and more
still to
as
being
of
he
and
be-
precisely similar
just witnessed.
The death
summit
to
Jesus.
the Acts.
Luke xxiv.
and twenty.^ Their
;
trade, and his trade implied no lack of learning or
of gentle breeding. With
us in our day,
intellectual
pursuits
heavenly
emanations.
Hebrew
and
excites
him.
later epochs
sa}',
the
 baj)tisni
amongst
the
visionaries
future
arose.
A
(Loiidres,
1707),
p.
103.
3
Revue
des
Bcux
and III.
on
rare
occasions
of
a
flame
(Isaiali
v.
24).
Compare
Virgil's
descents of the
ficulties
Avhich
by
divine
in-
fusion,
as the
be
pression
were
separately
tolerant
system,
prayed
in
Greek,
first
Christian
idea
was
even
broader
Bible in the
would gather
into one
knows how
70, 94,
of
tongues
has
been
produced
with
 Acts
and
of
St
Lehen
und
den
Schriften
Edward
Irving's
(Saint-Gall,
1839),
p.
14o,
149,
§
de-
nominate
tongues
an
instrument
appropriate
to
the
infant.
sighings.
The
general
such
as
John
Climacus,
as
circumstances appeared to
Heaven,*
that
they
the
society.
Ycry
soon
in
the
midst
member.
had
ordered.^
Many
hours
of
prayer.
1
voice
•oftener
they
were
silent
meditations.
dissensions.
abandon
themselves
to
ecstatic
exercises.^
return in
vain. AYho,
indeed, docs
not see
a
renunciation
of
con-
been
conducive
to
a
cenobitical
life
and
ligions—
of
Buddhism,
are
a
these
life
can
Jerusalem
a
communistic
sect.^
had already
very
essential-
both
male
and
supported
by
the
State,
p.
278,
necessar}--,
to
keep
were
the
seat
of
that
life
of
its
but
its ranks.^
and been the
order
to
in
nothing is for-
principal
The
only
Joseph Bar-Saba,
the
they
were
discharged
from
all
acti-^
e
duty,
so
10,
St
Paul,
may be
saved in
the day
But the
frightfid danger
sword
the
Chris-
tians
of
svich
Peter had
the
result
of
daring
zeal
and
was
doubtless
stone. This
;
*
is, a
a
saying
of
Jesus
a
part
of
the
strength
of
Jesus,
continued
the
marvellous
a
fault,'
or
deaths
which
took
free
by the
man has
no existence
dogma of
1 Thess. iv.
about the
the new faithful
only
pronounced
they were,
Ages,
in
a
sort
the
verb
drawn
from
three years
dis-
tant
missions.
Stephanus
or
is
no
language of Jesus, had
the
dominant
tongue.
brethren,
of
Benjamin,
of
Paul.
prohable.
Comp.
Rom.
ix.
3;
xi.
14.
In
any
event,
this
-
mosques
information
about
himself,
were
rather
of
spirit of
Talmud
germinated
in
among those
nominal adherents
con-
temptuously
by
abundantly
to
Jerusalem
**
itself,
owe
their
causes.
^akya-Mouni
the
pro-
fession
of
a
religion
which
them
inexhaustible
assistance
first
•century
of
social-
in a
Stephen,
per-
part
as
evangelists..
As
organizers,
agents
of
prominent
pro-
found
science
the
tianity.
A
was
of
these
and
the
maiden
who
as
places
The
admirable
idea
of
consecrating
by
old
The
-
more
than
a
husband.
In
the
public
welfare.
It
ad-
mitted
different
ordinary
con-
for
man
is
munities
temple and
to
acknowledging
of the
Jews was
Middle
Ages
in
were
of
one
heart
of
the
things
singleness
of
heart.
formidable enemy
the
new
sect
had
made
new
sect,
even
while
without
to
for
novelties
were suborned to watch for some word in his discourses
against
Moses.
Naturally
Stephen
was
still
observed
it
§
was
obtained
in
Stephen's
have
followed
quite
so
was
tired
and
the
who became
emperor) was
He sought
to
reply
to
consequently
more
ready
to
The
death
of
of
to
the
people
confided
the
government
of
with
chagrin.^
this :
that
at
the
civil
conse-
quences
of
a
sanguinary
law
yet
outside
the
Roman
government
those who
Jews
terms
with
Pon-
was
still
alive,
of pride,
designate a
short
1
that
there
were
other
deaths
tlian
that
of Menilmontant,
their existence.
dragged
mildness,
prison,
for
its
restilt_,
from
Jerusalem.
about
magic.
village
of
Gitta,
from a comparison
Acts
xxi.
9,
compared
writers
Acts. But
the
4th
Gospel
(written,
however, that the habitual
a
Philip
with marvellous
thenceforth
in
reality
humanitj^?
Was
a
conjuror
able
to
counter-balance
the
destinies
of
Christianity
doctrine
bending
his
steps
towards
the
Philis-
had
much
almost imknown
to the
returning
by an
drawn towards
water
Jerusalem,
and
was
now
returning
the
eunuch.
But
by Divine
in
its
proper
sense.
all.^
of their
which
have
just
been
the
and
probably
had
its
Christians,''
received
the
faith
from
Galilean
preachers.
our
era.^
of chapters ix.,
chapter xii.
faith.
During
the
of
he
wrote
or
Two
at
more
thani
in
the
which
most
curious.
Jlist.
des
Titus is very
(Phirnom.
5)
patrimonial
fortune.
It
seems
quite
other
relatives,®
who
it
**
polite,
and
through
their
skill
in
;^
The
Jewish
race
possesses
the
it-
self
throughout
his
an assurance
was
the name of
of
a
priestly
Phil. iv.
7,
8
happened
to extremes
take
deny
Jerusalem was dispersed,
on
explains
passages Acts
Hartat,
system of proselytizing,
height, and
Passion
is
one
extreme
creed
Paul
was
that he was
Haretb
(communication
of
is a tendency
of humanity,
Every
step
in
his
journey
to-
wards
victims.
This
thought
be-
set
him
a
mysterious
a
mysterious
Acts xxvi. 14.
kind at Byblos
in
Acts
thun-
der-showers
of great
a
Comp.
who spoke
to him
the
enormity
into
;
need
clear
him
by
the
liand,^
to the
liousc of
street called
texts
than
vision of
and instruct him.
in spirit
the
narrow,
timid,
and
of Jerusa-
of
Damascus,
besides
just opening
the
command of Ithuria. It w^as in the midst of this great
awaken-
this
preaching
wholly
ideal-
istic,
and
founded
on
a
belief
ofa
speedy
founded
istics
almost
The
faithful
felt
more
prudent
than
who,
during
all
the
at
latter
were
led
to
augment their privileges, and in particidar that one to which
they
clung
most
closely
the
turbulent
madmen that
sort of
the earth
in a
vein of
he
man
a severe tone,
he made
a show
of inquir-
adorned with
and asked
than
the
into three
It
does
not
that
this
which
the sea.°
seems,
and
distributed
her
woiJ
Cf.
Jos.
B.
of
this
was soon
of animals,
Cornelius
violate
latter
other believers.
thenceforth
a
party
opposed
shall
see
Ethiopian
far
from
being
settled.
This
a very
just view
of the
the
of
the
to confess the
precedents for an opinion. On the other
hand,
we
cannot
dace,
composed.
Paul,
to de-
Having
escaped
this
had
just
entered
in
spite
of
There
was
awakened
in
him,
however,
a
desire
direction^
to
in
a
state
per-
part.
They
had
seen
in entering
a
new
took
suspicious,
and
wisdom and
too
little
historical
stretching-
to
affirm
in
reality.
Towards
of prejudices
against him,
moderately
the
singular
that
no
found in
of Cilicia
He
did
not
assume
the
was then strictly
of
his
association
with
Barnabas
(in
45)
that
he
of
regularity
than
anywhere
else. ^
A
Corso,
S3'rian
cities
possessed—
the
noblest
of all
as
numerous
as
here,
him-
self
the
world
peculiarit}^
these
focuses
the
races
of
mankind
to
the
same
Sanctis
2
John
Chrysostoni,
ii.
charm of
the
most
picturesque
dangerous
neighbourhood
of
the
liberal
ordinances
that
of
the
Jews
was
one
as
the
Greeks.^
Although
the
to
meet
tlie
wants
of
serious
minds,
world ;
nevertheless,
established
city and
 the
old
century,
was
situated
But
no
disciples at
templated the
Church of
and least
much vigour,
the
Greek.
It
accepted from,
reproduced
in
a
strikinir
manner
of
declared
that
the
new
Church
had
true
favourable
very
climax
of
virtue
; and
of
Syria.
time,
stylites
and
hermits
consciousness
find
(Src.
The
Greek
derivative
from
Solemn
indeed
is
the
hour
when
the
a long time to
where
tlie
spread
of
Christianity
is
Greek and
®
seized hold of
ofproj)agand-
Banimidbar
rabba,
lem
without devel-
for
his
prophetic
powers,
was
at
the
capital
of
Christianity.
There
quickly
degenerate,
;
two
of
persecution
had reunited
and
took
the-
he
was.
received
Alexandria
felt,
although
Yibius
Marsus,
a
prudent
tended to
imperial
policy
and sought
Peter's
voice.
opening
the
door
she
ran
back
to
announce
ecstasy
; that
after
having
passed
of
a
and recognized
to deliver
alien
a
yernii-
cular
poisoned
and of
new
series
that
;
9;
Jos.
acted
also
with
great
having
torn
a
copy
of
the
Pentateuch.^
It
of
Cumanus
the
•disorders
which
troubles.'
But
these
troubles,
like
Christianity
itself,
were
one
extended,
and
where
the
-
knowledge
and
practice
of
the
law.^
had
adopted
the
Jewish
that
of
the
Tiger.' This
often
more
pious
named
Ananias,
who,
entering
the
seraglio
Ananias
vehemently
dissuaded
him that the
the family.
are
Persian.
a
pious
Jewess,
frequenting
the
temple,
be
distributed
among
the
poor.
to learn the customs
there
at
the
time
of
the
to
the
em-
to Christianity.
in
nowise
They
completely
separated
religion
from
2
Moses
alike the
adored in
the same
of
Chris-
tianity
is
A gener-
'
generally
a
glimpse
victims, and were
ever was
They believed
meritori-
ous
them into the
thousand
persons,
among
whom
excited
an idea
theosophy
and
it
reminds
of him-
self.^ In
to
all
eternity
5;
Providence,
the
intelligent
writings
of
among
men,
her
enemies
we find
must
be
admitted
the
Christian
ideas,
and
them but with
to that
based his
religious action
upon the
said,
but
that
his
suffering
was
only
been
exaggerated
fourth
Gospel
is,
that
speculations,
and
bl.
Phihsnphum.,
performance
as
theurgist
witli
type
desired
to
refer
to
dictory
documents.
to
show
only
accidental.
In
a
Fathers,
tion now in the
No.
6770.)
Comp.
Orelli,
No.
18o9.
be
Apophasis.tnogna
with him
but a
in
order
to
carry
to
of
the
sect
seem&
general
matters
was
predominant.
exclusively devoted
to
the
grace
of
of operations.
and
the
church-dominatiou,
lias
self any
a
empire was the preliminary
condition of all great
the
empire
it
period,
up of the new
in the
cause
it from
Roman
finding a
of the
enduring poverty
pleasantly
with
their
such
as
the
Greek,
the
Armenian,
and
the
them
a
heresy
is
an
affair
of
state,
and iii.
sustaining its
§
the
sources
whence
the
pro-
fane
historians
derived
their
information.^
The
composed
their
they
exer-
cised
the
and
their
law
were
alike
unjustly
reviled.
5
13
impious.
Above
all,
Their
gravity
and
good
vortex around
this singu-
lar race.
the Jewish religion
enormous mass
of mingled
the
editions
of
this
Father
or
in
the
military
of the
Jews to
regarded as
the Church.
abandon it
riches
and
profane
a
on tli.3
in
keeping
neighbours
to
modify
discovered
the
feature
to the
;
veil,
her
wistful
three
or
four
the
taste.
The
true
to
a
local
the
and
merci-
ful
man,
with it.
voice in public
conquered
numberless
pro-
adoption,
and
of
any
law
to
almost
apologizing
East,
and
particularly
good
Roman
emperors.
Me'moires de
'
one.
It
Olympus
of
cold,
unmeaning,
kindness and
protection
only because the pro-
to deny some
of
the
the
emperor,
to
busy
themselves
ease.
The
ancient
republics,
remnants
to the Roman
the
Office
engaged.
Not
only
philosophic
publics and
burden.
The
times
tlicir
eyes,
those
vast
the gymnasium
which
public
games.
The
an
ancient
of
the
face
and
and
the
theatre
But
religious
provided
else.
In
The
world
7<31,
Asia Minor
the remains
in
such
an
ing, the
agglomerations of people
of the
authors.
The
the old Greek
as complete
mind. This
wonderful movement
fertile
Greek philosophy,
prodigies.*
The
by
Seneca,^
re-
no
exercises,
^yllich
rather
ac-
celerated
tlian
retarded
style.*
Ptome
occidental world.
Greece fortunately
of
Augustus
degrad-
ation
for
in-
brilliancj was
own talent. The excellence of a
recitation
tragedies
anj'thing
but
sometimes
expressed
with
jDure, in comj)arison with
those observances
them
a pr.rt
tliis
form
yet succeeded
in com-
greedy
sacristans,
a
single
priest
manly
enough
by
popular
imagination,
the
pagan
religions
were
confined
by
their
was aspiring
become
reduced
to
and
can
no
longer
us.
Hellenism
was
an
original
a little
of
the
soul
was
taught
class.
Augustan
foreign
rites
profited
noliis.
Cic.
Pro
Flcccn,
28.
5
Now, the
than
ever.^
profit
by
the
popular
mood,
and,
as
ordinarily
We
real
search of
On the whole,
the lower
by
destroying
it.
unmindful
of
that
of
of
philosophy
in
was
lar
instincts
that
the
and the
as to present
emperor
tlie
two
of
this
period
emanated
belief,
phase
 
the
municipal
power,*
no
other
social
number
Magister
which
flourished
the
creeds
so
vainly
Inscr.
in
En'ue
Arch.,
Dec,
1864,
p.
462,
et
seq.
 vvliat
an
extent
a
subject,
seemingly
so
unim2:)ortantj
no
so much amuse-
the
Roman
empire
was
no one anything
men
persisted
of mem-
'
ages when the religious
all
that
to
that
the privilege of
the
ordinary
rites of sepulture, there would be a little band of friends who
would perform *' imaginary obsequies.
a
for
who
called
the
meeting
together.^
Claudius
most
sparingly.*
prudence,
so
eminent
odious
and
false
and
contracted
at
last
belonged
to
the
to
class
He is wrong
rank
the
same
terms
were
and art
at the least
goodness
and
of
truth.
to
him
nothing
pleasures,
A
few
years
passed,
and
the
new
conqueror,
had
alwa3\s in
provement,
is
This is something,
for self-interest is
selfish
wants
and
desires
alone,
Let none expect,
sense would
taken as the
becomes ugly,
founders
of
Buddhism^
although
age has
of
a
accomplishing
a
revolution
like
joyful
alacrity.
years
he was
whether
to
believe
or
not.
There
is
opponents
entirely
in
the
wrong.
his
developments
have
occurred
should
the
abode.