6. Declaration. "For _these_ causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me."--For these causes? For what causes? If for being a Pharisee, or preaching the general resurrection, or even the particular one,--assuredly no. But, if for the breach of trust, in joining with the state offenders, the Christianized Jews, whom he was commissioned to apprehend;--joining with those state offenders, and then bringing out the vision-story for an excuse;--if telling everybody that would hear him, that the law of the land was a dead letter;--and, if the denying he had ever done so; and, for giving himself the benefit of such mendacious denial, rendering the temple an instrument of notorious perjury;--if it was for all this, that they "went about" indeed "to kill him,"--but to kill him no otherwise than in the manner prescribed by that same law,--Jewishly speaking, they were not to blame in what they did,--humanly speaking, nothing can be seen that is not altogether natural in it. 7. Conclusion: namely, if not of what he would have said,--at any rate, of what, according to the reporter, he was permitted to say:--it is formed by a passage, in which, in continuance of his plan for keeping up his interest with the Pharisee part of the council, his ingenuity employs itself in strengthening the connection between the particular resurrection of Jesus, and the general resurrection maintained by the Pharisees. "Having therefore," says verse 22, "obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, _witnessing_ both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:--That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light unto the people, and to the Gentiles."--Lord Chief Justice Festus, "with a loud voice, as he," the Defendant, "thus spake for himself--Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning hath made thee mad." In the mouth of a Roman, and that Roman so high in rank, the notion thus expressed had nothing in it but what was natural enough. As to the _general_ resurrection, _that_ was one of the above-mentioned "questions about their own superstition," which he therefore left to the Jewish judges: as to the _particular_ resurrection, of this he had heard no better evidence than the defendant's: and what, in discriminating eyes, _that_ was likely to be worth, the reader has by this time judged.