Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-10-07

GOLDEN IEAI--lf any man suffer as
Christian. let him not be ashamed.-l Pet.
THE SECTION includes the story Of
Pauls fifth visit to Jerusalem (Acts z IS
3. ID.
TIME.-A d IS Monday. May Is Paul
leaves Cesarea for Jerusalem. Wednesday.
May II, reaches Jerusalem. Psntecost-
Thursday, May IS. Paul's report 10 James
and the elders Of the church Friday, May
IS, Pauis attendance at the temple with
the poor NaZarites. Tuesday, May %,
mobbed by the Jews in the temple area.
Wednesday, May "a. brought before the
Sanhedrim.
EXPLANATORY
SANDERS Against Paul, and the Plan
to Refute Them.-21: 20-26. The set
Element by vote, eight years before, of
the great question as 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 Paurs tesching and conduct,
thathe aughtthatnotonly the Gentiles,
but even the Jews, need not keep the
law of Moses. In order to refute these
SANDERS, the Jerusalem elders request
ed Paul TO publicly declare by open ae-
ton that he did keep the law, Four
men had come 10 Jerusalem to com
plete q Nazarite VOW Paul reluctant
" agreed to pay their necessary ex-
penseS, and for week ito live with four
paupers in the chamber of the temple
which was set apart for this purpose;
and then TO pay for l6 sacrificial ami
mails and the accompanying meat offer
ipgs; and TO stand among the Nazar1tes
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 peace-otFerings ."-Farrar
The Mob TO the Rescue--Acts 21:27-
40. TUESDAY, May 20, A. D. $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
off this and the other more sacred in
closures from the large court of the
Gentiles, into which anyone might en-
ter.
Paul necessarily spent his time with
in this Enclosure. He 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 Ephesus, whom they had seen with
him, and that under cover of keeping
the law, Paul was defying II. Then
arose a 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
to his rescue from Castle Antonio, which
overlooked the temple area from the
northwest corner. On the stairs lead
ing up to the castle, Paul reque. ted per-
mission TO speak to the people, and the
permission was granted.
Paul's Address on the Castle Stairs
Acts %: I-23.
First, He showed that he was as true
and Jealous a jew as the most jealous
of his prosecutors.
Second. He described how he became
Christian, though still a 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-
1:1s), 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. II was In a trance: =
The answer to his fervent prayer.
%. Cast off their clothes:" An orr
entail expression of rage, as If they
would thus tear the apostle TO pieces
and shake him out of the nation.
". Value of Paul's Roman Citizen
ship.-Vs. 24-29. "a. ''The chief cap
tain:" had not understood Pau1's ad-
dress, since II was spoken In Hebrew
and naturally did not know what Paul
had done to arouse such q tempest of
rage. Examined by scourging:" They
were 10 scourge him till he confessed
his crime for which the Jews were en-
ragged at him.
IS. Bound him (were binding) with
thongs The word for bound means
stretched They either stretched him
along the whipping post by the thongs,
or stretched him out for the thongs, as
r. V. margin. lis it lawful" etc. The
magic of the Roman law produced its
effect in q moment. Lysias was both
astonished and alarmed He knew full
well that no man would dare assume
the right of citizenship if 1t did not real
~ belong to HIM. For the assertion, if
false was punishable with death.
Paul Before the Sanhedrim.-V. 80;
23:1-11. so. "All their council" The
SGnhedrim, 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, lDy arraying the
Pharisees against the Sadducees as TO
doctrine. Paul was taken back TO 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