. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. er son firmly seated on the throne, fixed her residence at Jerusalem for the purposes ^- The Jews believed that on a persons death, ^ Acts vi. 5. his guardian angel occasionally api)earfd in his - Acts xii. 20. likeness. The Jews therefore meant by a per- ^ en-i To^roif 6i) rat t6v Xt/iov Kara t^v sous angel, what we should now call his ghost. Iou8niai (rvi/tdr) yiviaBai. .los. Ant. xx. 5, 2. = Acts xii. 6 to 17. ^ See Fasti Sacri, p. 2Sl, Xo. 167J; p. 287, •* See Fasti Sacri, p. 161, Xo. 1198. Xo. 1719. ■ Acts xi. 30. [ W] FAMINE UNDER CLAUDIUS.
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. er son firmly seated on the throne, fixed her residence at Jerusalem for the purposes ^- The Jews believed that on a persons death, ^ Acts vi. 5. his guardian angel occasionally api)earfd in his - Acts xii. 20. likeness. The Jews therefore meant by a per- ^ en-i To^roif 6i) rat t6v Xt/iov Kara t^v sous angel, what we should now call his ghost. Iou8niai (rvi/tdr) yiviaBai. .los. Ant. xx. 5, 2. = Acts xii. 6 to 17. ^ See Fasti Sacri, p. 2Sl, Xo. 167J; p. 287, •* See Fasti Sacri, p. 161, Xo. 1198. Xo. 1719. ■ Acts xi. 30. [ W] FAMINE UNDER CLAUDIUS. [Chap. VIT. of worshiiJ. Now her coming, says Joseplius, was of infinite service to the people ofJerusalem : for a famine about that time oppressing the city, and many dyino- of Helena sent some of her servants to Alexandria, with money to buy a greatquantity of corn, and others of them to Cyprus to bring a cargo of dried figs ; and assoon as they were come back, bringing the provisions, she distributed food to those. Fig. 52.—J coin of ClaudiiObv. Ti. Claudius Cfesar Aug., wil relating to the famine. From Pembroke collection. a bushel measure.—Rev. Same legend, with a pair of scales. that were distressed, and so left a most excellent memorial behind her of this benefac-tion towards our whole nation ; and her son Izates also, when he was informed of thefamine, forwarded large sums of money to the principal men in Jerusalem. ^° It was during the sojourn of Paul at Jerusalem, at this period, that the revelationwas made to him which is referred to in the Second Epistle to the Corinthians. Iknow a man in Christ (he writes) about fourteen years ago (whether in the body Icannot tell, or whether out of the body I cannot tell: God knoweth) ; such an onecaught up to the third heaven. And I know such a man (whether in the body, or outof the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth), how that he was caught up into Paradiseand heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful fo
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