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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: disciples, but to become one of them. He carried with him all his former zeal into his new course of life. He saw two tasks lying before him. One was to persuade the Gentiles to put away their idol worship, and the sensual vices which that worship encouraged, and to embrace the religious truths of Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: disciples, but to become one of them. He carried with him all his former zeal into his new course of life. He saw two tasks lying before him. One was to persuade the Gentiles to put away their idol worship, and the sensual vices which that worship encouraged, and to embrace the religious truths of Judaism unencumbered with its ceremonies. The other was to persuade the Jews to admit the Gentiles into religious fellowship without requiring them to come under the bondage of the Levitical Law and the tradition; and this he thought an important step towards the conversion of the Gentiles. The Jews of Damascus, with whom Saul argued in this way, soon sought to kill him as an apostate; and they watched the city gates for him day and night lest he should escape. The disciples, however, let him down by a basket over the city wall; and he made his way back to Jerusalem (Acts ix. 26). This was three years after his conversion (Gal. i. 18). Saul's First Visit To Jerusalem: After His CONTEESION (Acts ix.). Saul's reason for going to Jerusalem was to join himself to the disciples; but they were very naturally afraid of him, not knowing whether he really had become one of themselves. Among them, however, there was one who had known Saul before; and he assured them that Saul might be trusted. This was Barnabas, a Levite, a native of Cyprus, a zealous and wealthy disciple, who had sold land which he possessed in that island, and had given the money as a contribution towards the expenses of the young Church (Acts iv. 37). He brought Saul to the Apostles; and after seeing them, Saul preached boldly in the name of the - Lord Jesus, addressing himself chiefly to the Grecians, or Jews who spoke the Greek language. But his life was hardly safe in Jerusalem, because his teaching went to Books, History~~General, On-the-Journeys-and-Epistles-of-the-Apostle-Paul~~Samuel-Sharpe, , , , , , , , , , Nabu Press<