Scenes from the life of StPaul and their religious lessons .. . ven that which in itself is full of harmand corruption may, through grace, be made alink in the golden chain: All things areyours, and ye are Christs, and Christ is Gods (i Cor. iii. 21-23). This is a natural train of reflection to a ChristianSt Paul at scholar, as he watches the ship Malta which took St Paul safely from Malta to Puteoli. He had spent the winter in theisland, where, delivered from the viper, he wasagain acclaimed as ^ a god (Acts xxviii. 6) ; andthen finished his voyage in a ship of Alexandria,whose sign was Casto
Scenes from the life of StPaul and their religious lessons .. . ven that which in itself is full of harmand corruption may, through grace, be made alink in the golden chain: All things areyours, and ye are Christs, and Christ is Gods (i Cor. iii. 21-23). This is a natural train of reflection to a ChristianSt Paul at scholar, as he watches the ship Malta which took St Paul safely from Malta to Puteoli. He had spent the winter in theisland, where, delivered from the viper, he wasagain acclaimed as ^ a god (Acts xxviii. 6) ; andthen finished his voyage in a ship of Alexandria,whose sign was Castor and Pollux (Acts ). The vessel in which he went was a corn-ship, like that in which he had been ornaments of her prow were Sails for Italy _^ , , ,. . , , two heathen divinities, two brothersfamous in classical mythology. Thus the Apostlesailed in an Egyptian merchantman, under thetutelage of pagan gods, to accomplish his Christianmission. When we look back upon that first century,and see in imagination that ancient vessel, with 220.
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