Primitive Christianity
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ISBN13: 9780217742115
Paperback|9780217742115
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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: THE APOSTLE PAUL CHAPTER III Education: Greek Influence Paul, or, to give him his Jewish name,1 Saul, was born of Jewish parents in the Greek city of Tarsus in Cilicia. The Jewish home and the Greek city gave him his Jewish-Greek education, which fitted him to be an Apostle of the Gospel in the Grecian world. He who could say that he had become a Greek to the Greeks and a Jew to the Jews in order to win all for the Gospel must have from the first known Greeks as well as Jews. And Tarsus was an excellent place to learn to know them, as regards not only their outward conduct, but their deepest thoughts and feelings. For Tarsus was not only a flourishing commercial city, but also an important seat of Greek Philosophy, especially of the Stoic School. Several famous teachers of that school came from Tarsus, among others the teacher of Augustus, Athenodorus, who had also been of some service to Cicero when 1 The combination of a Greek with a Hebrew name was frequent among Hellenistic Jews, and it is probable that in the case of Paul-Saul it does not date only from the incident recorded in Acts xiii. 7 ff., but from his home in Tarsus, the twofold designation corresponding to the dual character of his interests and education. writing the De Officiis,1 and who is frequently mentioned by Seneca. This Athenodorus exercised, after his return from Rome to his home in Tarsus, a considerable influence in a political direction. He obtained from the Emperor a remission of taxes in the interests of his fellow-citizens, and for this was elevated by the grateful populace to the position of a hero, and celebrated in a yearly memorial festival.2 Of such a celebrity of his own city the young Saul-Paul would be sure to hear, and would no doubt learn something of his life and teaching. Mo...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217742115 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217742114 |
| Weight | 0.78 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.54 In |
| List Price | $21.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 236 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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