The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans : with notes, comments, maps, and illustrations .. . the Sermon on the Mount in which he deduced it from the operationsof nature, and on the great commission in which he bade his disciples, Go into all the worldand preach the Gospel unto every creature. But it is very certain that the apostles did notthemselves read either Christs teaching or his life during the first ten years after his deathas we read it now. Not one of them had gone outside of Palestine. Most of them remainedin or near Jerusalem, expectant of his second coming. When the message
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans : with notes, comments, maps, and illustrations .. . the Sermon on the Mount in which he deduced it from the operationsof nature, and on the great commission in which he bade his disciples, Go into all the worldand preach the Gospel unto every creature. But it is very certain that the apostles did notthemselves read either Christs teaching or his life during the first ten years after his deathas we read it now. Not one of them had gone outside of Palestine. Most of them remainedin or near Jerusalem, expectant of his second coming. When the message came to Peterfrom Cornelius to ask for instruction in righteousness, it was necessary by a special vision toteach Peter that he might go. When he did go, he was astonished beyond measure that the Act i: 23-26 ; vi: 3, 5 ; xiii: 1-3 ; xiv : 23 ; xx : 17 ; 1 Cor. iv: 19-21 ; Titus i: 5. For fuller c. nsideration ofcharacter of primitive church, see notes on Tlie Epistles to the Corinthians. See Acts xiii: 1 and note there. Acts xiii : 2. • Acts xi: 25, 26. Matt. \ : 43. PAUL THE MISSIONARY, 29. GRECIAN PEASANT. Holy Ghost sliould he given to a Roman centurion, be he ever so devout. When persecu-tion drove the Christians out of Jerusalem, and they traveled as far as the heathen cities ofPhenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, they preached to the Jews only. When tidings cameback to the Christians at Jerusalem that at last some had ven-tured to preach the Gospel unto Gentiles, the Metropolitan church,startled at such disorderly proceedings, sent down Barnabas toinquire into the matter. The Philip who ventured to l)apti7,e theEthiopian was himself a Greek ; the Stephen who was martyred forintimating that God was the God not of the Jews only but alsoof the Gentiles, was probably a proselyte from Greece. The firstinstance of a direct preaching of the Gospel to an absolute pagan isthat of Pauls preaching to Paulus, the proconsul of Cyprus. Nowonder that Marks heart failed him at the very b
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