The life and work of St. Paul

New Testament. (See Testament.) *4
Nicodemus as a Pharisee, 26.
Nicolas Significance of his appointment as a
deacon, 75 ; evidence connecting him with
the Nicolaitans insufficient, 75.
O.
Offertory, Paul on the, 414, 419, 420, 421, 444.
Old Testament. (See Testament.)
Olives, Mount of. (See Mount of Olives.)
Onesimus Visit to Paul and conversion, 58 ;
subject of Paul's Epistle to Philemon,
. 608; his offence and its legal consequences,
623 et scij.
Onesiphorus
his search for Paul and visits to
him in prison at Rome, 666-7 ; his kindness
to Paul, 670.
Oral Law. (See Law.)
Our Lord our Bedeemer our Saviour. (Se
Jesus.)
P.
Paganism and its results, 466.
Paphos, Soothsayers of, 198.
Paraclete. (See Holy Ghost.)
Parchments and hooks of Paul at Troas, 21,
681 et seq.
Parthenon dedicated to Virgin Mary, 313.
Pascal, antecedents of, and compared with
Paul, 3.
Passover, Upper room of, 48, 181.
Pastoral Epistles, Paul's genuineness of, 664,
743.
Paul Apostolical journeys of (see Apostolical)
; Apostle of Progress, 1 ; "in
deaths oft," 1 ; Apostle of the Gentiles, 2 ;
teacher of justification by faith, 2 ;
INDEX.
under
God the founder of Christendom, 2 ; value
of his Epistles, 2 ; power of his writings,
2, 3 ; his character, 2-4 ; antecedents and
life compared with those of Luther, Wesley,
and others ; antecedents compared
with those of other Apostles, 3, 7; his
education, 3, 7 ; his history gathered
from the Acts and the Epistles but fragmentary,
5, 6 ; genuineness of his Epistles,
4-6 his ; account of his own sufferings,
compulsory, 5; sufficiency for materials
of bis life and character, 7 ; undesigned
coincidences in his Epistles, 7: "Paul
the aged," 7, 8 ; birthplace and boyhood,
8 et seq. ; parentage and descent, 9,
20 ; power in his nationality, 9, 20 ;
languages known to him, 9, 10 ; languages
in which he spoke, 10 ; his inner life, 11,
12 ; unobservant of such beauties of nature
as were frequently mentioned by our
Lord, 12 ; early impressions at Tarsus, 13 ;
influencing causes of his trade, 13; influence
of his trade on his character, 14 ;
his parents, 14 ; their privileges as Roman
citizens inherited by him, 14 ; his kinsmen,
15 ; his education under Gamaliel, 15 ; a
Hebraist, though writing in Greek, 15;
Longinus' criticisms on his style, 15;
Cilicisms in his style, 16; influence on
him of his residence in Tarsus, 16 et seq. ;
his preference of folly with God over the
wisdom of heathendom, 19 not ; of Hellenic
culture, his style peculiar and his Greek
provincial, his thought* Syriac, his dia-
lectic method Babbinic, 21; his books
and parchments at Troas, 21, 681 et : seq. ;
those books, not Greek literature, 21-2 ! ;
acquaintance with Greek literature, 22;
classic quotations and allusions, 22;
Boman citizenship, 23-4 ; scourgings, 24 ;
Roman citizenship not inconsistent with
Jewish descent, 24; early studies, 25;
claims to be a Pharisee, 26 ; knowledge of
the Old Testament, quoting the LXX.,
27 ; value to him of Gamaliel's teaching,
28; his views of inspiration, 28; use of
the Old Testament and of Scriptures
generally, 28-9 his ; style of argument to
Jews, 29 ; as Hebrew and Hellenist, 33 ;
endeavours to keep the Law, 37 ; misconception
of the Oral Law, 37 ; extent of hia
obedience to the Law, 38 ; early anxieties,
88-9 ; compared with Luther, Bunyan, and
Johu Newton, 40 ; early inward struggles,
40-1 ; saw the Lord Jesus Christ, 41-3 ;
knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ by
not at Jerusalem at the time of
faith, 43 ;
our Lord's ministry and crucifixion influence
on him of Stephen's dying words, 44,
:
97 ; his marriage, 44-6 ; early dealing with
the infant Church, 47 ; cause for his hatred
by the people, 80 ; his part in the dispute
with Stephen in the Synagogue of the
Libertines, 82 ; his feelings on listening to
him, 82 ; holding the clothes of those who
stoned Stephen, 94 ; aged thirty years at
Stephen's martyrdom, 95; member of
the Sanhedrin, and so a married man,
95; his fury against Christians, 96;
even under-rated as a persecutor, 97;
his confession of erring obstinacy in persecuting
the Church, 98 ; under persecution,
99 his ; commission for Damascus,
100 ; reflections on his way to Damascusconversion,
101-9 inward ; struggles, 105-6 ;
knowledge that he had been spoken to by
his God, 109; result of having seen the
Lord Jesus Christ, 109, 110 ; his blindness,
109 ; the two accounts of his conversion,
111-12; immediately after his conversion
led blind into Damascus, 113 ; entry into
and departure from Damascus, 113 ; original
mission to Damascus, 114 ; his con-
version 'as an evidence of Christianity,
114 ; Christ all in all to him, and hia
witness to Christ, 114 a ; preacher of the
cross and the Crucified, 115 ; a Nazarene,
115 ; the training necessary for his ! great
work, 117 ; retirement into Arabia his ,
need of retirement, 116-17 ; source of his j
Apostleship, 118 ; frame of mind after his
conversion, 118-19 ; his relation to Moses
and Mosaism, 120; his "thorn in thai
flesh" here called "stake in the flesh" |
121 et seq.; traces of his "stake in the
flesh," 122 et seq. ; object of his " stake in
the flesh," 125 ; return to and preaching
at Damascus, 125 et seq. ; how his preaching
was received by the Jews of Damascus,
126 ; scourged by the Jews, 127 ; escape
from Damascus, 128; journey from Damascus
to Jerusalem, and reception there,
128-30; meeting with Peter at Jerusalem,
130; compared with James, 181; early
relations with Joseph, Hark, and Barnabas,
132-4 ; early trials, 135 ; twice secured
by Barnabas for the work of Christianity,
134, 162 ; his recognition by the Apostles