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...Saul the Pharisee, now Paul the Apostle, joined Barnabas to preach and proselytize in Antioch for a small sect of Jews who called themselves Nazarenes. When he died some 15 years later, he left behind him the firm foundations of a world religion. He shaped Christianity with his thought; Augustine and the church fathers built upon his theology, and Martin Luther found in Paul's writings the key to the Reformation: justification by faith. He stamped Christianity deeply with his missionary zeal; no other religion has penetrated into the corners of the world so persistently, and so careless...
...Pharisee. Paul was not raised to suffer public scourgings and jostlings in police courts. He was born (probably some ten to 15 years after Jesus) to a prominent family in a prominent city. Tarsus in Cilicia, famed for its wealth and culture, was 1,000 years old in Saul's time, had a population of about 500,000, and was one of the centers of Stoic philosophy. Un like most of the other early Christians, Paul was a city sophisticate and always remained one; where the peasant authors of the Gospels took their figures of speech from nature (fishing...
According to Luke - generally accepted as author of the Acts of the Apostles - young Saul was sent to Jerusalem to study under the great rabbi Gamaliel. True to the Jewish tradition that a rabbi must have a trade so that he will never have to ac cept money for teaching the law of God, Saul was a tentmaker...
...words: "When it pleased God ... to reveal his Son in me that I might preach him among the heathen." But Acts gives three versions, varying in detail but all including the sudden bright light and the collapse on the road to Damascus, the voice and vision of Jesus saying, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" Blinded, he is led into the city, where a Christian named Ananias, advised by a vision, lays his hands on Paul, "And ... he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized...
...Saul into Paul. The preacher who indeed spoke with the tongues of men and angels remains a marvel to modern missionaries for his tireless traveling through the whole Mediterranean world, on foot, preaching in cities and hamlets, in markets under the eyes of Roman soldiers and by the wayside before peasants and slaves. His movements are generally divided into three missionary journeys, although*actually they were not continuous trips...