. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. 17-20. i. 18. Acts ii. 9, 10. [ 39] SAUL AT JEBUSALEM. [Chap. V. which I persecuted the Nazarenes, when they behold me the fearless champion of theName I once blasphemed—they must believe that so great and inexplicable a changecan only have resulted from some miraculous interposition ! Nay but, 0 man, whoart thou that repliest against God ? The answer to the expostulation was, Depart:for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. At the very time of the vision, a plot, though yet unknown to Saul, was formingamongst his enemies to take away his life.
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. 17-20. i. 18. Acts ii. 9, 10. [ 39] SAUL AT JEBUSALEM. [Chap. V. which I persecuted the Nazarenes, when they behold me the fearless champion of theName I once blasphemed—they must believe that so great and inexplicable a changecan only have resulted from some miraculous interposition ! Nay but, 0 man, whoart thou that repliest against God ? The answer to the expostulation was, Depart:for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. At the very time of the vision, a plot, though yet unknown to Saul, was formingamongst his enemies to take away his life. He had been only iifteen days inJerusalem, but his ministry had already been attended with such surprising suc-cess, that the unbelieving Jews saw plainly that they must rid themselves of theyoung zealot, or succumb before the power with which he promulgated the faith. Itwas a repetition of the scene which had passed three years before at the martyrdomof Stephen, except that the persecutor then was, by the mysterious workings of. Fig. 32.—Com nf Casarea-iin-Sta. From Academie des Imcript. vol. .xxvi. p. 440, ed. Nepui SEgaiTTOi Kaurap (NeroAugustus CssaT).—liev. The goddess Astarte. holding in her hand a bust of I Aijievi (Cssarea on Port Sebastus). and the legend, L. 1 A, or fourteenth jmetime between October 13, 67, and October 13, , 68. This coin conBrmsThe statement of josephus that the harbour constructed by Herod at Ca^sarea was called Port Sebastus, orAugustus. See Antiq. xvii. 5, 1. Nero, with the legend Kaicrupia tj Trpos of the reign of Nero, and therefore struck s Providence, to be the victim now. The brethren, however, had secret informationof the plot, and snatched him from the toils of his enemies by hurrying him awayto Cfesarea (fig. 32), the city built by Herod the Great, just beyond the borders ofJudffia, on the coast of Phcenicia,* and at that time the principal seat of the Koman Eom. ix. 20. Acts xxii. 21. Acts ix. 30. Olshau
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