CHAPTER I.✦

THE TRAINING OF SAUL THE RABBI.

ACTS vii. 58; xxii. 3.

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St. Paul's Appearance on the Christian Stage and its Results--The Tübingen Theory--His Parentage--Birthplace-- Testimony of St. Epiphanius--Early Friends--Education-- Trade--Gamaliel and his Influence--Evidence of Talmud-- Pharisaic Schools--Their Casuistry and Exegesis--Parallel between Hagar and Sarah 1-21

CHAPTER II.✦

THE CONVERSION OF THE PERSECUTOR.

ACTS viii. 3; ix. 1-6.

Saul of Tarsus and St. Stephen--Saul and the Sanhedrin-- Conduct of Saul when Unconverted--Continuity of Judaism and Christianity--Saul and Blasphemy of Christ--Sense of Sin compatible with Sense of Forgiveness--Hooker on the Litany--Jeremy Taylor on Humility--Saul's Mission to Damascus--Domestic Tribunal permitted to the Jews by the Romans--Used against the Men of the Way--Meaning of this expression--Influence of it--Saul's Journey--Scene of Conversion--Lord Lyttelton's Observations upon St. Paul's Conversion--Supernatural Accompaniments appropriate to--Apostle's own Narrative--Reflections of the Venerable Bede 22-47

CHAPTER III.✦

THE NEW CONVERT AND HIS HUMAN TEACHER.

ACTS ix. 10, 11.

Saul and the Vision--Which probably produced Ophthalmia-- Portrait of St. Paul--Ananias of Damascus--Straight Street--St. Chrysostom on the Spiritual Greatness of Ananias--Seventeenth-century Travellers in Palestine-- Conversation between Jesus Christ and Ananias--Its Theology--Meaning of word Saint--Protest against Antinomianism--St. Paul and title Vas Electionis--And Doctrine of Election--Balance of Doctrine--The New Convert and Prayer 48-67