In conclusion I ought to explain that I systematically quote the Fathers whenever I can out of the translations published by Messrs. T. & T. Clark, or in the Oxford Library of the Fathers. It would have been very easy for me to give this book a very learned look by adding the references in Greek or Latin, but I do not think I should have thus conduced much to its practical utility. The Fathers are now a collection of works much spoken of, but very little read, and the references in the original added to theological works are much more overlooked than consulted. It would conduce much to a sound knowledge of primitive antiquity were the works translated of all the Christian writers who flourished down to the triumph of Christianity. Authors who fill their pages with quotations in Latin and Greek which they do not translate forget one simple fact, that ten or twenty years in a country parish immersed in its endless details make the Latin and Greek of even good scholars somewhat rusty. And if so, what must be the case with those who are not good scholars, or not scholars at all, whether bad or good? I am often surprised noting how much more exacting from their readers modern scholars are in this direction than our forefathers of two hundred years ago. Let any one, for instance, take up the works composed in English by Hammond or Thorndike discussing the subject of Episcopacy, and it will be found that in every case when they use a Latin, Greek, or Hebrew quotation while they give the original they always add the translation. Finally I have to acknowledge, what every page will show, the great assistance I have derived from the Lives of St. Paul written by Archdeacon Farrar, Mr. Lewin, and Messrs. Conybeare & Howson, and to express a hope that this volume together with the previous one will be found helpful by some as they strive to form a better and truer conception of the manner in which the Church of the living God was founded and built up amongst men. GEORGE T. STOKES. ALL SAINTS' VICARAGE, BLACKROCK, _Nov. 4th, 1892_. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. THE TRAINING OF SAUL THE RABBI. ACTS vii. 58; xxii. 3. PAGE St. Paul's Appearance on the Christian Stage and its Results--The Tübingen Theory--His Parentage--Birthplace-- Testimony of St. Epiphanius--Early Friends--Education-- Trade--Gamaliel and his Influence--Evidence of Talmud-- Pharisaic Schools--Their Casuistry and Exegesis--Parallel between Hagar and Sarah 1-21 CHAPTER II. THE CONVERSION OF THE PERSECUTOR. ACTS viii. 3; ix. 1-6.