. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. deliverus; ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us bythe means of many persons, thanks may be given by many on our behalf. ° It wasalmost matter of course with a Jew of that day xipon being rescued from anyimminent danger, to take the vow of a Nazarite, namely, for thirty days to let thehair grow, and abstain from wine, and at the expiration of that period to shear thehead, and when nest at Jerusalem to shave the head and offer the accustomedsacrifices. Paul had taken such a vow at Corinth, and had afterwards completed
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. deliverus; ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us bythe means of many persons, thanks may be given by many on our behalf. ° It wasalmost matter of course with a Jew of that day xipon being rescued from anyimminent danger, to take the vow of a Nazarite, namely, for thirty days to let thehair grow, and abstain from wine, and at the expiration of that period to shear thehead, and when nest at Jerusalem to shave the head and offer the accustomedsacrifices. Paul had taken such a vow at Corinth, and had afterwards completed itat Jerusalem, and he now expressed in the same way his thankfulness to God for sogreat a deliverance, and we shall see that on reaching Jerusalem the following yearhe joined with four other Nazarites in paying the usual offerings. His abstinence onthis occasion may have contributed somewhat to that depression of the animal spiritswhich so characterizes the Second Epistle to the Corinthians, written not long after. 2 Cor. i.
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