[116] Many others, including Hilary, Jerome, Theodoret and the Occumenian commentators are stated by Rawlinson (St. Paul in Damascus and Arabia, p. 128), to hold the same opinion. Porter, not alone of modern writers, puts forth the same view in his “Five Years in Damascus,” and supposes that Paul’s success was great enough to provoke the hostility of Aretas and make him join the later persecution. [117] “Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia,” p. 214. [118] Koran, Surah vii. 71. [119] Desert of the Exodus, p. 50. [120] Acts xvii. 26. [121] Acts xvii. 29. [122] Acts xvii. 31. [123] Acts xvii. 25. [124] Acts xx. 20, 27. [125] Wright’s “Early Christianity in Arabia,” 1855. [126] Buchanan’s Christian Researches. [127] Wright, p. 77. [128] The latest version of his life is by Nöldeke in his “Sketches from Eastern History.” (London, 1892.) [129] Wright, p. 144. [130] Kurtz’ “Church History,” Vol. I., p. 386. [131] See however, _Christianity in China, Tartary and Tibet_, by Abbe Huc, Vol. I., p. 88 (New York, 1857). He speaks of Christians in Nejran as late as the tenth century. [132] See Smith’s “Short History of Missions.” Peroquet, Vie de Raymund Lull (1667). Low de Vita Ray. Lull (Halle, 1830). Helfferich Raymund Lull (Berlin, 1858). Dublin _Univ. Mag._, Vol. LXXVIII., p. 43, “His Life and Work.” [133] O merciful God, who hast made all men, and hatest nothing that Thou hast made, nor wouldest the death of a sinner, but rather that he should be converted and live: have mercy upon all Jews, _Turks_, Infidels, and Heretics, and take from them all ignorance, hardness of heart, and contempt of Thy Word, and so fetch them home, blessed Lord, to Thy flock, that they may be saved among the remnant of the true Israelites, and be made one fold under one Shepherd, Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen. [134] “Life of Henry Martyn,” by George Smith, C. I. E., LL. D., (1892) p. 226. [135] Journal of Mr. Anthony N. Groves, Missionary to and at Bagdad. (London, 1831.) [136] George Smith’s Life of Martyn, p. 563. [137] In 1876, after the death of Dr. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Stothert of the Free Church Mission arranged to take a trip up the Persian Gulf as far as Bagdad. They were deeply impressed by the spiritual needs of the whole of Eastern Arabia. On the way they sold Scriptures and on their return called attention to the needs of Bagdad. For twenty-five years special prayer was offered for Eastern Arabia every Monday by these two missionaries! [138] _Church Missionary Intelligencer_ for May and June, 1887. [139] The General also published an account of his journey in Yemen from a geographical standpoint in the _Geographical Journal_, Vol. IX., p. 479. See also _The Missionary Review of the World_, October, 1895. [140] “The Missionary Expansion since the Reformation.”—Graham, p. 19. “Life and Letters of Rev. A. Stern.”