The Life And Work Of St. Paul, Volume 1
1880
The Life And Work Of St. Paul, Volume 1 [you are here] The Life And Work Of St. Paul, Volume 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS. BOOK I. THE TRAINING OF THE APOSTLE. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. Various types of the Apostolate — St. Peter and St. John — The place of St. Paul in the History of the Church — His training in Judaism — What we may learn of his Life — Modern Criticism of the Acts of the Apostles — Authorities for the Biography of St. Paul — Records, though fragmentary, suffice for a true estimate — Grandeur of the Apostle's Work 1 CHAPTER II. BOYHOOD IN A HEATHEN CITY. Date of his Birth — Question of Birthplace — Giscala or Tarsus? — The Scenery of Tarsus — Its History and Trade — Paul's indifference to the beauties of Nature — His Parentage — Early Education — Contact with Paganism — Paganism as seen at Tarsus — Paganism as it was — A decadent culture — Impressions left on the mind of St. Paul — St. Paul, a Hebraist — His supposed familiarity with Classical Literature shown to be an untenable opinion 13 CHAPTER III. THE SCHOOL OF THE RABBI. Roman Citizen ship — 8chool Life at Tarsus and Jerusalem — Gamaliel — Permanent effects of Rabbinic training as traced in the Epistles — St. Paul's knowledge of the Old Testament — His method of quoting and applying the Scriptures — Instances — Rabbinic in form, free in spirit — Freedom from Rabbinic faults — Examples of his allegoric method — St. Paul a Hagadiat — The Hagada and the Halaoha 40 CHAPTER IV. SAUL THE PHARISEE. Early straggles — The minutiae of Pharisaism — Sense of their insufficiency — Legal blamelessness gave no peace — Pharisaic hypocrisies — Troubled years — Memories of these early donbts never obliterated — Had Saul seen Jesus? — It is almost certain that he had not — Was he a married man? — Strong probability that he was 62 CHAPTER V. ST. PETER AND THE FIRST PENTECOST. Saul's First Contact with the Christians — Source of their energy — The Resurrection — The Ascension — First Meeting — Election of Matthias — Th
