The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-10-08

Civ.
THE SECTION includes the story OF
"auls fifth visit TO Jerusalem (Acts Il: IS
%: I'D.
TIATE.-A. u. Is. Monday. May n. Paul
leaves ccsaroa for Jerusalem. Wednesday.
May IL, reaches Jcrusalcm. lcntccost.
Thursday, May Is, lauls report 70 James
md the elders OF the church. Friday. May
10. Paul's attendance at the temple with
the poor Na2aritcs. Tuesday, May ~.
nobbcd by the Jews In the tcaple area.
Wednesday. May "a. brought before the
6arhcdrim.
EXPLANATORY.
ISLANDERS Against Paul, and the Plan
to Rcfute Thcm.-2l;2o-2G TIE set
tlement By vote. eight years before, Of
the great question rs TO the necessity
OF keeping the Jewish law. did NOT
change the opinions of all the Jewish
Christians. They had heard vague ru-
mors of Paul's teaching and conduct,
that he taught thatnot only the Gentiles,
but even the Jews, need not keep the
law of Moses. In order TO rcfute these
sllnders. the Jerusalem elders request
ed Paul to publicly declare by open ac-
ton that he did keep the law. -Four
men had come to Jerusalem 10 COM
plete a Nazarite VOW. Paul reluctant
Is agreed to pay their necessary ex-
penses. and for week "to live with four
paupers in the chamber of the temple
which was set apart for this purpose;
and then to pay for 16 sacrifcial ami
mails and the accompanying meat offer
iros; and to stand among the Nazarites
while the priest offered them, and then
to look on while the mems heads were
being shaved and while they took their
hair to burn it under the boiling caul-
dron of the eace-ofrerings. "-Farrar
The Mob to the Rcscue.-Acts 21:27-
40. TUESDAY, May 90, A.. ID. $50 The
apartment appropriated TO the Nazar-
ties was in the court of the women. the
entrance to (Which was through the Gate
beautiful. A balustrade Of stone fenced
or this and the other more sacred in
closures from the large court Of the
GentiIes, into which anyone might en-
Ter.
Paul necessarily spent his time with
in this inclosure. lie was seen here BY
the Jews who had been his opponents
at Ephesus. in company with these
strangers, and they supposed that one
Of them must be his friend Trophimus,
Of Ephcsus, whom they had seen with
him, and hat under cover of keeping
the law. Paul was defying it. Then
arose 4 fearful mob. Paul was dragged
down the steps through the Gate Beau
tiful into the court of the Gentiles, and
would have been beaten to death had
not the colonel (Chiliarch, commander
OF 1000 men) of the Roman guard come
10 his rescue from Castle Antonio, which
overlooked the temple area from the
northwest corner. On the stairs lead
ing up to the castle. Paul requested per-
mission to speak to the people, and the
permission was granted.
Paul's Address on the Castle Stairs
Acts 22:i-2j.
First. lie showed that he ,eas as true
and jealous a jew as the most Jealous
OF his prosecutors.
Second. lie described how he became
n Christian, though still n jew, by the
power of the God Of their fathers. who
had chosen him to preach salvation. He
had found forgiveness Of sins. He had
found the Messiah.
Third. He showed them how he was
commissioned to preach to the Gentiles.
II. II was come again TO Jerusalem:"
Three years after his conversion (Gal-
1879. and the first OF his five visits.
While / prayed in the temple:" Show
ing that he still honored the temple as
the house of God. Il was in n trance"
The answer to his fcrvent prayer.
%. Cast off their clothes:" An orr
entail expression Of rage. as II they
would thus tear the apostle TO pieces
and shake him out of the nation.
". Value Of Paul's Roman Citizen
rhip.-Vs. 1920. "a. 1.-THE chief cap
tain:" had not understood Paul's adj
dress, since it was spoken in Hebrew,
and naturally did not know what Paul
had done to- arouse such a tempest of
rage. Examined by scourging:" They
were TO scourge him till he confessed
his crime for which the Jews were en-
ragged at him.
70. Bound him (were birding) with
thongs:" The word for bound means
stretched. They either stretched him
along the whipping post hy the thongs,
or stretched him out for the thongs. as
Il. Y. margin. SIS il lawful" etc. The
magic of the Roman law produced its
effect in a moment. Lysias was both
aatonishcd and alarmed. He knew full
well that no man would dare assume
the right Of citizenship 4 it did not real
ly belong TO him. For the assertion, II
false, was punishable with death.
Paul Before the Sanhedrim.-N. 30;
23:1-11. 80. "All their council" The
Sanhedrim, which met at this time in a
room just outside Of the temple walls.
Paul extricated himself and prevented
the Sanhedrim from agreeing upon any
charge against him, 10y arraying the
Pharisees against the Sadducees MS to
doctrine. Paul was taken back 10 the
castle, and there in his hour of darkness,
when he was weary in body, when his
plans and hopes seemed about to fail,
when his efforts for his countrymen
had made them his bitter enemies, and
the Roman power held him in prison
IN this hour the Lord stood by him with
words of cheer. His hearts desire wal
granted, that he should preach the Cos
mol In Dcr.