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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE CONVERSION TH E most important event in Christian history next to the birth of Jesus, the conversion of Paul, is involved in the obscurity that attaches to all spiritual processes which the subject of them cannot adequately explain to himself, much less to others. It does not appear from the apostle's own writings that he wished to make to others any disclosures as to the character and details of this great experience. Rather with a delicacy which the writer of Acts does not attribute to him he appears to shrink from such a proceeding, and we have only allusions to the fact of the change that throw little light upon its antecedents or its process. It is probable that the prominence of Paul in the early church may have been the occasion of more importance being attached to his conversion than he attached to it himself, or than was warrantable under the circumstances. The conversion of a Jew to Christianity was not so unusual at the time that there was any occasion for proclaiming the fact as a miracle; and if the church had never had the accounts of Paul's conversion in Acts, which show how the event was regarded a half-century or so after it happened, and how tradition had given the occurrence a legendary form and embellishment, no one would have thought of resorting to a miracle to explain it. It is worthy of note as a fact generally overlooked in the discussion of the matter that Paul does not anywhere mention a conversion, but says that Christ was seen of himand revealed in him (i Cor. xv. 8; Gal. i. 16). Whether these events coincided with his first believing in Christianity or not he does not say. He does not tell us, and we do not know, but that these revelations and visions were subsequent to his acceptance of Christianity and connected with ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217244961 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217244963 |
| Weight | 1.05 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.72 In |
| List Price | $22.91 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 322 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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