Identifier: biblicaltheologi02wats (find matches)
Title: A Biblical and theological dictionary: explanatory of the history, manners, and customs of the Jews, and neighbouring nations
Year: 1833 (1830s)
Authors: Watson, Richard, 1781-1833 Bangs, Nathan, 1778-1862
Subjects: Bible Theology
Publisher: New-York, Pub. by B. Waugh and T. Mason
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ble that St. Paul laid the foundation ofthose literary attainments, for which he wasso eminent in the future part of his life, at hisnative city of Tarsus ; and he afterward studiedthe law of Moses, and the traditions of theelders, at Jerusalem, under Gamaliel, a cele-brated rabbi. Acts xxii, 4. St. Paul is notmentioned in the Gospels; nor is it knownwhether he ever heard our Saviour preach, orsaw him perform any miracle. His name firstoccurs in the account given in the Acts of themartyrdom of St. Stephen, A. D. 34, to whichhe is said to have consented, Acts viii, 1: heis upon that occasion called a young man; butwe are no where informed what was then hisprecise age. The death of St. Stephen wasfollowed by a severe persecution of the churchat Jerusalem, and St. Paul became distinguishedamong its enemies by his activity and violence,Acts viii, 3. Not contented with displayinghis hatred to the Gospel in Judea, he obtainedauthority from the high priest to go to Damas- ^iifPiiiiiiiiiiiiiM
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PAU 730 PAU cus, and to bring back with him bound anyChristians whom he might find in that city.As he was upon his journey thither, A. D. 35,his miraculous conversion took place, the cir-cumstances of which are recorded in Acts ix,and are frequently alluded to in his epistles,1 Cor. XV, 9; Gal. i, 13; 1 Tim. i, 12, 13. Soon after St. Paul was baptized at Da-mascus, he went into Arabia; but we are notinformed Jiow long he remained there. He re-turned to Damascus ; and being supernaturallyqualified to be a preacher of the Gospel, heimmediately entered upon his ministry in thatcity. The boldness and success with whichhe enforced the truths of Christianity so irri-tated the unbelieving Jews, that they resolvedto put him to death. Acts ix, 23; but, thisdesign being known, the disciples conveyedhim privately out of Damascus, and he wentto Jerusalem, A. D. 38. The Christians ofJerusalem, remembering St. Pauls former hos-tility to the Gospel, and having no authenticaccount of any change in hi

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