This, indeed, was a masterly manoeuvre, and produced the desired effect; and Paul by this shows his knowledge of the human heart, in trusting to make his Judges forget what he was accused of, by making an appeal to their sectarian passions.

For, in truth, he was not accused concerning his opinion about "the hope, and the resurrection of the dead," but for the following cause, as his accusers vociferated (in the xxi.

ch.) when they seized him in the Temple, "Men of Israel, Help! This is the man, who teacheth all men every where against, the people, and the Law, and this place." These strokes of character enable us to understand the man; and I shall now go into the consideration of some of the arguments he has deduced from passages in the Old Testament in support of his opinions; after premising, that the truth of the story of the manner of his conversion depends entirely upon his own assertion; and whether his credibility be absolutely unimpeachable, can be easily determined by an impartial consideration of the history of his conduct already mentioned.

I will only add upon this subject, that in telling the story of his conversion, he ought to have had a better memory; for in telling it once in xxvi.ch.of Acts, he says, in describing his miraculous vision, that "those that were with me, saw indeed the light, and were afraid, but heard not the words of him that spake to me;" and thus he directly contradicts the story of it recorded in Acts ix., where it is said, "that the men who journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing the voice, but seeing no one." In the 9th chapter of the Epistle to the Romans, v.

24, he thus proves; that the Old Testament prophecied of the conversion of the Gentiles, to the Gospel--"Even us whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles, as he saith also in Hosea "I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.