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Title: Ancient apostles
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: McKay, David O. (David Oman), 1873-1970 Deseret Sunday School Union
Subjects: Apostles
Publisher: Salt Lake City, Utah : Deseret Sunday School Union
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e lidit of his remark. Others Interrupted ^ i • i i • i were more courteous, and said, as they with-drew from him, We will hear thee again on thismatter. Paul must have felt almost crushed with the thoughtthat his sermon had been an utter failure; but he haddone his duty and the seeds of truth had^(onyluis ^^^^ sown. They bore fruit in the conversionof Dionysius, a member of the court of theAreopagus, and of a woman whose name was Da-maris, and others with them. After remaining a short time, he left Athens ashe had lived in it, a despised and lonely man. Yetthat short visit, and that interrupted speech, charac-terized, as both were, by a sincere desire to call theerring and wicked to repentance, have made Paulmore famous than any of the philosophers, so wisein their own conceit, who mocked and spumed him. At the Close of the Second Mission It is probable that Timothy joined Paul in Athens;but if so, he returned immediately to the churches in *Read and explain sermon Acts 17:22-31.
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At Athens and Corinth 195 Macedonia. Thus it was that Paul sailed fromAthens alone, and having landed at the seaportCoHnth Cenchrea, walked eighteen miles to Corinth. Here he found many Greeks and Jews. Therewere crowds also of strangers who came to seethe great games and races for which Corinth wasnoted. Corinth, at that time, was a great commer-cial center, and merchantmen and other traders fromfar and near made up its population. If Athens wasa learned city, Corinth was a wealthy and wicked one.So Pauls loneliness here must have been just as keenas it was in Athens. Indeed, he says himself that hewent there in weakness and in fear and in muchtrembling.^ Just about that time a Roman emperor namedClaudius issued a decree that all Jews should be ban-ished from Rome. Among those who had toPrUcillT^ leave were a man named Aquila and his, wife Priscilla. Whether they were Chris-tions before they came to Corinth is not known. Atany rate, they were among the first friends Paul metin that c

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