The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-02-05
The Sunday Schools.
LESSON FOR NEXT SUNDAY
February Sth, 1885.
FIRST 9UARTER-
ESSON VI, PAUL AsSAILED.
ACTS 81. T-40.
TCommif to memory verses 30-33.

ACTS Il. N-40.
| TCommif to memory verses 30-33.
27 And when the seven days were almost end
ed, the Jews which were of ASIA, when the!
saw him in the temple, stirred up all the peo
pie and laid hands on him,
% Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is thu
| man, that teacheth all men everywhere agains
| the people, and the law, and this place: ano
further brought Greeks also into the temple
and hath polluted this holy place.
20 (For they had seen before with him in the
| city Trophimus an Eph esian, whom they sup
posed that Paul had brought into the temple.
80 And all lhe city was moved, and the peo'
! pie ran together: and they took Paul, and drew
him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors
| were shut.
81 And as they went about to kill him, It'd.
ings came unto the chief captain of the ban
that all Jerusalem was in an uproar:
80 Who Immediately took soldiers and centu-
rions and ran down unto them: and when they
saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left
beating of Paul.
SO Then the chief captain came near, and took
him, and commanded him to be bound with
two chains; and demanded who he was, and
what he had done.
81 And some cried one thing, some another,
among the multitude: and when he could not
know the certainty for the tumult, he COM
manded him to be carried into the castle.
35 And when he came upon the stairs, SO it
was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the
violence of the people.
SO For the multitude of the people followed
after. crying, Away with him.
81 And as Paul was to be led into the castle,
he said unto the chief captain, May speak un-
to thee? Who said. Canst thou speak Greek?
3S Art not thou that Egyptian which before
these days madest an uproar, and leddest out
in to the wilderness four thousand men that
were murderers?
SO But Paul said, am man which am Jew
of Tsrsus, city in Cilicia, citizen of no mean
city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak
unto the people.
20 And when he had given him license, Paul
stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the
hand unto the people. And when there was
made great silence, he spake unto them, say
ing.
GOLDEN TEXT.-''I am ready not to be bound
only. but also to die Mt Jerusalem for the
name of the Lord Jesus. "-Acts 2l-l3.
Time-A. D. IS.
Paul, with the four men under a VOW.
remained in, or visited daily, for the per-
iod of seven days, the Nazarite's room in
the women's court of the temple, fulfill
ing the requirements of the VOW. On the
l. Ill hC w do ODoCL NCu Wy OIlC
Jews which were Of Asia" These knew
md hated Paul, and believing him to be
IN apostat ate from their faith, they imme-
lately set to work to stir up the people,
md found it an easy task to arouse bit
er hatred against the Apostle in the tenn
lie. They laid hands on him-not in the
orm of legal arrest, but as the victim Of
he vengeance of the mob.
To excite the people to the pitch of lay
ng hands upon the Apostle, these Jews
ried out that he had been teaching all
nen everywhere against the people, and
he law, and the temple. The teaching
gainst the temple and its prevailing laws
vas the worst of crimes in the eyes of
be Jews. Paul was also charged with
olluting the holy place by bringing
treek-speaking Gentiles into the holy
lace, there being an outer court reserved
Or the Gentiles, and the Jewish faith re-
arding the holy pavement unclean when
rodden by Gentiles. The foundation of
MS charge was the beholding of Paul in
/ the city in company with Trophimus,
n Ephesian, and the supposition that he
yas with Paul in the temple.
So thoroughly successful was the work {
f Pauls maligners that the entire city ,
yas aroused in anger against him. Many
5udents of the Lesson of last Sunday dis
pprove of Paul's action in embracing the
ewish custom in order to win the favor
f the Jewish Christians, but the present
,sson shows that the danger came not
rom these, but from Jewish disbelievers
l Jesus. The action of the mob in seiZ-
lg Paul was observed by the watchmen
pom the wall of the castle of Antonia who
Ould look down upon the scene, and the
larm, or tidings being given, the chief
aptain, Claudius Lysias, took with him
ufficient force to restrain the mob, and
AXE the victim of their hatred away. ,
his military force was kept in Jerusa-
I'M to hold the people under control, the
Governor of the Province having his
eadquarters in Cesarea. 1t was neces-
ary to make show of force in order to
eep the Jews in subsection to the Roman
oke. The chief captain was of the rank
colonel, and the centuriOns that of cap
aims. The great confusion made it i'm
ossible for the Colonel to tell what Paul
7as charged with, so that he ordered him
AIKEN into the castle, chained to two sol
iers. On the way into the castle, the p
Apostle asked, in the Greek tongue, for {
emission to address the throng. This /
7as a great surprise to the Roman officer,
Vho supposed Paul an Egyptian impos-
or who had formerly led an ignorant ]
abble out of Jerusalem, claiming to pos
ess power to perform miracles. He was
ttacked by the procurator Felix, and his ::
ollowers dispersed, but the Egyptian es-
aped, and the officer had a suspicion that
'aul was that one. Paul replied that he !
vas Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia.
his city was a seat of learning. Paul
imself was man of great dignity and
and commanded the re-
pect of those who had him in charge, and
7hen he made the request to be permit
ed to address the mob, the strange re-
uest was granted. His right arm was
eleased, that he might, by its motion,
the attention of the crowd. A
vave of his hand causes a silence to pre-
all among the people, who from curios-
ty desire to hear what he may have to
ay, and in the language in use among
he common people of Judea, known as
Aramic, he began his address.
A Narrow Escape!
Orlando Stiffier went to the roof of the