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The life and work of St. Paul

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106 THE LIFE AND WORK OF ST. FAtTL:<br />

persecute these P could it bo God's will which had driven him so fiercely along<br />

a road that was stained in blood ? could he be required to pass through those<br />

scenes <strong>of</strong> horror in which he had haled the wife <strong>and</strong> the mother to prison, <strong>and</strong><br />

seen the coarse menials <strong>of</strong> the synagogue remorselessly scourge men whose<br />

MAP SHOWING THE ROADS FROM JERUSALEM TO DAMA8CC3.<br />

<strong>life</strong> was love <strong>and</strong> humility <strong>and</strong> holiness P Had he after all been mistaking<br />

pride for faithfulness, <strong>and</strong> rage for zeal ? Had he been murdering the saints<br />

that were upon the earth, <strong>and</strong> them that excelled in virtue ? Was Gamaliel<br />

right in suggesting the possibility that in meddling with these men they<br />

might haply be fighting against God P<br />

So day by day, his mind filled more <strong>and</strong> more with distracting doubts, hia<br />

imagination haunted by eights <strong>of</strong> cruelty which, in spite <strong>of</strong> all zeal, harrowed

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