Scenes from the life of StPaul and their religious lessons .. . st his personal appearance was not is it unreasonable to conclude, when we readof Barnabas being ^ a good man (Acts xi. 24),of his generosity to Paul on a critical occasion(Acts ix. 27), and of his being named the Son ofConsolation (Acts iv. 2^% that there was in hisaspect something of that noble beneficence whichwould naturally be attributed to the father of godsand men. Without, however, adding anything from ourPopular o^^ imagination, we see how natural Amazement [^ ^^s that the Lystrians should rush together, and
Scenes from the life of StPaul and their religious lessons .. . st his personal appearance was not is it unreasonable to conclude, when we readof Barnabas being ^ a good man (Acts xi. 24),of his generosity to Paul on a critical occasion(Acts ix. 27), and of his being named the Son ofConsolation (Acts iv. 2^% that there was in hisaspect something of that noble beneficence whichwould naturally be attributed to the father of godsand men. Without, however, adding anything from ourPopular o^^ imagination, we see how natural Amazement [^ ^^s that the Lystrians should rush together, and with one voice give expressionto their feelings of wonder and gratitude ; and thatthese feehngs should find their utterance in thenative hereditary dialect, which to every people isthe instantaneous language of emotion. Whenthe people saw what Paul had done, they lifted uptheir voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, Thegods are come down to us in the likeness of they called Barnabas, Jupiter, and Paul,Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker. 58. ST. PAUL AT LYSTRA.(Acts xiv, 13.) POPULAR ADORATION The next step was to proceed, without amoments delay, to adoration and popularsacrifice. The priest of Jupiter Adorationwas summoned to his duty. Victims were brought,duly decorated with ^garlands; and the votiveprocession, surrounded by an eager multitude,approached ^the gates of the house where themissionaries were resting or teaching. But now they saw the full import of the excite-ment of the multitude, which at first they couldnot possibly understand from their ignorance ofthe Lycaonian language. They sprang out in vehe-ment horror, ^^rent their clothes, and addressedthe people. Very different from Agrippa (Actsxii. 22, 23), who complacently allowed himself tobe deified, and perished under a righteous judg-ment, — shrinking, on the contrary, like Peter(Acts X. 26), from any approach to divine honours,* for that they also were men,—and rejectingthem with even a m
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