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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: 45 THE PASTOEAL EPISTLES, OB THE CLOSING LABOURS OF THE APOSTLE PAUL. As we read the Epistle to the Philippians, we feel that the Apostle in his Eoman prison was looking for speedy martyrdom. In many respects therefore he regarded his work as finished. At the same time he felt that his abiding in the flesh was a help to the Churches which he had founded, and which he would fain visit once again (Phil. i. 24). In this aspect there seemed still a work for him to do. We are not told in the book of the Acts which of the two possibilities was realized. In its closing verses it refers to the two years of Paul's captivity in Eome, but does not tell us to what issue they led. This abrupt conclusion of the narrative in the Acts is remarkable and difficult to explain; but it appears to me more easy to account for it on the supposition that these two years of imprisonment were followed by a period of renewed activity, into the details of which the writer did not propose to enter, than on the supposition that they terminated in a violent death, to which he could so easily have referred in a single line. We are inclined therefore to accept as the more probable, the idea that the Apostle was set free, and was thus enabled to renew his labours for the good of the Church either in the East or West. We know that his plan, when in the year 59 he left Corinth to repair to Jerusalem and thence to Eome, was not to take up his abode in Eome, but simply to pass through it on his way into Spain, that he might fulfil the ministry which he had received of the Lord, to carry to the very end of the earth the testimony of the gospel of His grace. Was it given him to fulfil this purpose ? Most modern writers think not. Even those critics who, like Weiss and Farrar, believe in the liberation of ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217279345 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217279341 |
| Weight | 1.05 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 In |
| List Price | $23.93 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 324 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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