162. Indeed, we have here a man of such heroic size that it is no easy
matter to define him. Along with the clearest vision of the lines of
demarcation between the old and the new in the greatest crisis of human
history and an unfaltering championship of principle when real issues
were involved, we see in him the most genial superiority to mere formal
rules and the utmost consideration for the feelings of those who did
not see as he saw. By one huge blow he had cut himself free from the
bigotry of bondage; but he never fell into the bigotry of liberty, and
had always far loftier aims in view than the mere logic of his own
position.
CHAPTER X
THE END
Paragraphs 163-189.
163, 164. RETURN TO JERUSALEM. Prophecy of
Approaching Imprisonment.
165-168. ARREST. 166. Tumult in Temple; 167. Paul
before the Sanhedrim; 168. Plot of Zealots.
169-172. IMPRISONMENT AT CAESAREA. 170.
Providential Reason for this Confinement. 171.
Paul's later Gospel. 172. His Ethics.
173-176. JOURNEY TO ROME. 173. Appeal to
Caesar. 174. Voyage to Italy. 175. Arrival in
Rome.
176-182. FIRST IMPRISONMENT AT ROME. 176.
Trial delayed. 177-182. Occupations of a Prisoner.
178. His Guards Converted; 180. Visits of Apostolic
Helpers; 181. Messengers from his Churches; 182.
His Writings.
183-188. LAST SCENES. 185. Release from Prison;
New Journeys. 186. Second Imprisonment at Rome.
187, 188. Trial and Death.
189. EPILOGUE.
163. Return to Jerusalem.--After completing his brief visit to Greece
at the close of his third missionary journey, Paul returned to
Jerusalem. He must by this time have been nearly sixty years of age;
and for twenty years he had been engaged in almost superhuman labors.
He had been traveling and preaching incessantly, and carrying on his
heart a crushing weight of cares. His body had been worn with disease
and mangled with punishments and abuse; and his hair must have been
whitened, and his face furrowed with the lines of age. As yet,
however, there were no signs of his body breaking down, and his spirit
was still as keen as ever in its enthusiasm for the service of Christ.
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