[Seekers after God by Frederic William Farrar]@TWC D-Link bookSeekers after God CHAPTER XIV 2/7
It was undoubtedly in the same despised locality that St.Paul,--the prisoner who had been consigned to the care of Burrus,--hired a room, sent for the principle Jews, and for two years taught to Jews and Christians, to any Pagans who would listen to him, the doctrines which were destined to regenerate the world. [Footnote 38: Luke and Aristarchus.] [Footnote 39: Acts xxiv.
23, xxvii.
3.] [Footnote 40: Acts xxviii.
30, [Greek: en idio misthomati].] [Footnote 41: MART._Ep_.i.
42: JUV.xiv.186.In these few paragraphs I follow M.Aubertin, who (as well as many other authors) has collected many of the principal passages in which Roman writers allude to the Jews and Christians.] Any one entering that mean and dingy room would have seen a Jew with bent body and furrowed countenance, and with every appearance of age, weakness, and disease chained by the arm to a Roman soldier.
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