John Carter – The Speeches in the Acts – Class 1 – Introduction to the Speeches in the Acts

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Is in the nature of a little
skirmish.

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We’re being introduced.
We’re getting to know something

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about the book and the purpose
of it, and something about the

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author of it and the quality of
his work.

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And then we can only promise you
in the afternoons that follow

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some fairly hard thinking.
It has been said that one reason

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for the progress of Christianity
was that the Christians

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outthought their opponents.
And we cannot read the epistles

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of the New Testament without
recognizing that they did some

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very high thinking.
And we can’t read the speeches

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in Acts either, without
realizing with what cogency and

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power they put forward their
case.

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It’s an object lesson for us
that we in a similar manner know

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what we believe, and put it
forward with a similar power of

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presentation that they used.
We think of the Epistle to the

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Ephesians or the Epistle to the
Colossians, and we say we’ll

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make a study of it.
But those epistles and all the

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others were written off to meet
a particular situation.

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And one day when the residents
and sisters were assembled in

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Colossus Day, the recording
brother, but with his brother so

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and so who’s brought an epistle
from Paul, and he will read it

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to us or some other brother.
Ability for reading was given

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the job of reading it and it was
written to be understood then

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when it was written and when it
was read.

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I wonder sometimes if we under
little small in stature compared

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to the 1st century Christians in
their thinking power concerning

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the faith which was in Christ
Jesus.

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Well, in keeping with that high
thinking we get the record of

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what they did.
Just think, our destitute we

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would be if we hadn’t got the
Acts of the Apostles.

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It takes us to somewhere in the
7th decade of the 1st century.

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All that is written in Acts
occurred before the fall of

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Jerusalem.
We all know something about

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that.
But how much do we know of what

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happened after the fall of
Jerusalem?

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How much of church’s history
does any one of us know of the

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period that followed Acts, let
alone the 2nd century and the

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3rd?
And maybe a few among us with a

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a bent for history who have made
the study of it.

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But what I want us to impress
upon ourselves is that if we

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hadn’t got the Acts of the
Apostles, we would be just as

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destitute of knowledge
concerning the first half

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century of Christian life.
And that was the vital half

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century.
And therefore, within the Canon

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of Holy Writ, we have an
inspired record of the

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beginnings of Christianity, of
the outworking of the divine

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purpose after the ascension of
Jesus Christ, in the work that

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the apostles did in pursuit of
the Commission that he gave unto

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them.
Acts is a record of the

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beginning of this divine work
upon earth, of taking out of the

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Gentiles a people for His name.
It has been assailed, and

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assailed with considerable
vigor.

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A little over 100 years ago
there was a school in Germany

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which gave the name to a mode of
thought with regard to the

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Epistles and the writings of the
New Testament.

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At Tubingen, a school in
Germany, there were a company of

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scholars who dismissed most of
the New Testament writings to

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the 2nd century.
We needn’t go into the

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philosophy of the matter, that
is to say their philosophy

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history, whereby they explained
it.

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There’s something much more
interesting, more important to

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do than that.
But what we must recognise is

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that they somehow acquired A
dominant indirect, so that 50

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years ago most scholars would
have approached the New

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Testament from what they thought
was an established position.

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That all the epistles of Paul,
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were not written by Paul at all.
That the Acts of the Apostles

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and in fact most of the Gospels
belong to the 2nd century.

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Now, if that were the case, we
wouldn’t have very reliable

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history.
If the first written record of

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the beginning of Christianity
were dated in the 2nd century,

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we couldn’t expect that they
would be very, very dependable.

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And therefore Luke’s writings
were very suspect and there were

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a number of points in his record
which were assailed as being

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particularly vulnerable.
And I want to tell you about one

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or two of those as illustrating
how modern discovery has

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vindicated in a wonderful way
the truth of the record which we

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have in the writings through
Luke.

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He tells us in his gospel of the
birth of Jesus.

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And it was the insight of a
historian.

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And in all these relative
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we do not forget that behind it
all was the inspiration and

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guidance of the power of God.
But nevertheless, God used the

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men and used their aptitudes and
abilities.

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And we can discern the
difference between John Gospel

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and Matthew’s Gospel and Duke’s
as his own distinctive style and

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method of approach.
Well, Luke with then, with the

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historian’s sense of proportion
and fitness, put the birth of

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Jesus in the framework of world
events, and he tells us that

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when Jesus was born, Mary, at
great inconvenience, must

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accompany Joseph or his spoused
husband to Bethlehem.

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No easy Rd. from Nazareth in the
north to Bethlehem just below

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Jerusalem.
But she must per she must

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perforce take this journey
because a decree had gone forth

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from Augustus that there should
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And Luke tells us that this
enrolment was first made when

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Korenius was governor of Judea.
And the critic comes in to play

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and he says it’s altogether
impossible.

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Augustus never ordered an
enrolment.

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In any case, Luke has made a
mistake.

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Poquarinius was governor of
Judea 10 years after the date of

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the birth of Jesus.
And even if there were an

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enrolment, they wouldn’t have to
go to their native place,

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because it would be so very
inconvenient and so recent as

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the turn of the century.
In fact, in the last commentary,

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complete commentary on the New
Testament text, I’m showing you

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this isn’t a book that has been
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The writer who had spent a
lifetime as a teacher of

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theological students could say.
Concerning these opening verses

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of Luke chapter 2.
The passage has given rise to a

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host of questions which have
been discussed with bewildering

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conflict of opinion in an
extensive critical and

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apologetic literature.
The difficulty is not so much as

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to the meaning of the
Evangelist’s word, but rather as

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to their truth.
And he chooses out four points.

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1 Apart from the Gospel, history
knows nothing of a general

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imperial census in the time of
Augustus.

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Second, there could have been no
Roman census during the time of

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Herod the Great.
And third, such a census at such

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a time could not have been
carried out by Quiranius, for he

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was not governor in Syria then,
not till 10 years later, when he

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did make a census which gave
rise to a revolt on the Judas of

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Galilee.
And fourthly, under a Roman

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census, it could not have been
necessary for Joseph and Mary to

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go to Bethlehem or Mary to
accompany him.

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And on those two he has this
comment.

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One could almost wish it had
been omitted, or that there were

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reasoning to believe, or, as has
been suggested by several

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writers, that it is a glass that
has found its way into the text,

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and that Luke is not responsible
for it.

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So much trouble as it given to
commentators.

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Now if these men, who were
professed adherence of the

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Christian religion for the most
part had been loyal to their

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text, they would have said that
Luke is a credible witness, and

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if he tells us something that
seems to have been omitted from

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other histories, well, so much
the worse for them.

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But through the magnificent work
of Sir William Ramsay there has

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been an entire reversal of the
attitude of scholars to Luke’s

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writings on this particular
issue.

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Papyrus papers found in Egypt
have shown that there was a

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regular system of enrolment
every 14 years.

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These bits of papyri have been
discovered in Egypt because the

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dryness of the climate there has
been the means whereby they have

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been preserved, but what
obtained in Egypt would obtain

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elsewhere, and the sufficient
theories have been discovered to

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show that this enrolment took
place every 14 years.

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So far as we know, there has
been no discovery of any scrap

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of the first enrolment, but the
theories takes us back to the

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year when Christ was born and it
tells us that they had to go to

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their native place as a family
to be enrolled.

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But an inscription which has
been discovered by Sir William

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Ramsey himself in Antioch, in
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I’ve established that Quranius
was sent on a military mission

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to call a tribal revolt in Asia
Minor, and the strategy of it

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required that there should be an
attack.

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A pincer movement from Asia
Minor and from Syria, and a

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military officer in charge of
such a matter took precedence

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over the governor for the time
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And the inscription shows that
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charge and therefore the edict
would be issued by him.

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And on every point where Luke
was thought to be wrong, the

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discoveries of the last 50 years
have shown him to be

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marvellously right.
Now Ramsay went out to Asia

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Minor in the 80s of last
century, and he says that when

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he went, he accepted without
question the decisions of the

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Tubingen school.
He was familiar with what scraps

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of history have survived
concerning the history of Asia

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Minor, and he began an
exploration, an archaeological

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exploration in Asia Minor, his
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bound up with the meeting place
of East and West which was

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there, and as the result of his
discoveries on the spot, he was

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driven to regard at as a 1st
century document, absolutely

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accurate in every detail.
All was true in matters of

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boundaries, always correct in
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rulers of cities, or of
provinces, or of whatever it may

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be.
I am going to quote you from his

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call.
The Traveller.

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I may fairly claim to have
entered on this investigation,

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without any prejudice in favour
of the conclusion which I shall

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now attempt to justify to the
reader.

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On the contrary, I began with a
mind unfavourable to it, for the

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ingenuity had at one time quite
convinced me.

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It did not then lie in my line
of life to investigate the

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subject minutely.
But more recently I found myself

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often brought in contact with
the Book of Acts as an authority

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for the Topography, Antiquities
and Society of Asia Minor.

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It was gradually borning upon me
that in various details the

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narrative showed marvellous
truth.

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In fact, beginning with the
fixed idea that the work was

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essentially a second century
composition and never relying on

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its evidence as trustworthy for
1st century conditions, I

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gradually came to find it a
useful ally in some obscure and

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difficult investigations.
And Ramsey challenged the

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critics and the critics
attempted to meet the challenge,

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which led to further
examination, further discussion.

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And Ramsay considered
contributed to magazines a

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number of articles, all bearing
upon 1st century life, many of

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which have been issued in
volumes.

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And they fill a shelf, something
like that.

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And very interesting reading
they are.

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Ramsay, in his book The Bearing
of Modern Discovery, tells us

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with some indignation of a
German writer whose name is

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Wilkin, who now declares that
Luke’s record of the birth of

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Jesus is a legend.
And the reason he claims it is a

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legend is because in the
externals it is so perfectly

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accurate.
And he says that someone who

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knew exactly the circumstances,
external circumstances, the

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details of the history, took
them and pushed into them this

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legend of the birth of Jesus, in
order that it might be by the

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appearance of being put in a
framework of history, be

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regarded as being a statement of
historical fact.

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Now Ramsey is careful to say
that the marvels described in

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Acts do not concern.
His purpose is there to test

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matters which are testable, and
obviously such a matter as the

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birth of Jesus cannot be
testable by ordinary canons of

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history.
But he says that wherever and

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whenever anything that Luke has
been said can be tested, Luke is

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always found to be right.
And Ramsey, in his enthusiasm

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for Luke’s writings, exhaust his
vocabulary to extol the

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magnificence of what Luke has
written in the perfection of its

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statement, the precision of his
description, and the general way

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in which he presents his case.
Ramsey characterizes Luke as a

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first rate historian.
And so that assured of the

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accuracy of what Luke has
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renewed confidence.
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mastermind, quite apart from the
fact that there was the guidance

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of the Spirit of God behind it.
Now there is a way which we’re

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going to try and illustrate in
the hope that if it is

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necessary, this bit can be cut
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came to see that what Luke has
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He tells us of Paul’s visit to
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Antioch, Lystra, Iconium and
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Now we have no record in acts of
a visit to a Galatia which was

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known to earlier scholars.
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frequent changes of geographical
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systems.
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had established a Roman state of
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Galatia.
Now I’m going to just turn to

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the map to illustrate this for
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I hope you can see that’s what
I’m on this side.

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The better here is H here is
Palestine and Paul travelled up

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fast.
Starsus and Paul went across to

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Cyprus and then across there,
then up into the Highlands and

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there are the cities of that
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Here they are.
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The second journey was overland
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there and then through the
Civicilian gates and up to the

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uplands here.
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Now if you can see this brown
patch, I’ll run my pencil round

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it.
There.

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Those are the boundaries of the
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But that Roman province didn’t
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It didn’t exist in the 2nd
century BC because there’s been

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changes.
Now the ethnic territory, the

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territory of the old Galatians
was in this northern portion

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here.
And because Paul wrote a letter

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to the Galatians, it was
necessary to insert into the

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history in Act a visit to the
Galatians.

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And if the only Galatian known
was the old territory where the

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Galatians proper lived, then
obviously with a serious gap in

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Acts.
And even scholars of the

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traditional line like Lightwood,
who was a magnificent scholar in

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the field of Acts in the
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century, had to admit that from
his point of view there were

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some strange and inexplicable
gaps in the writings.

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Inept.
But immediately it was seen that

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Luke is speaking and Paul is
thinking when using the word

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Galatia of the provincial
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Galatia.
Then it is seen that those

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cities that Paul visited on the
first journey.

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Antiochian Presidium, this I
call him, and David, but they

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are the Galatian cities.
Now this map, as you see, is a

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new map.
And I’m going to point out that

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all those new map is perpetuate
Panera, for there is a dotted

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travel line that takes us right
up there to Penisus and to

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Ankara.
Ankara is the capital of modern

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Turkey and then back down here.
But there’s nothing enacted to

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correspond to that journey
there.

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Nothing at all.
But it didn’t enact because it

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didn’t occur.
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because of the hypothesis that
Galatia refers to the ethnic

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Galatia, not the political
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But Jake Luke has recorded the
facts of the time and all his

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references are true concerning
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Then we see that what he said
was perfectly true and accurate

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and we’ve no need to think of
gaps and to say that his history

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is a hotspot.
In fact, it’s a marvellous, it’s

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systematic unfolding.
And so you see, in that way our

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discovery has not only
illustrated the meaning of Luke,

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but has also established the
perfect accuracy of what he has

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written.
Now I just want to give one more

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illustration on this head.
I have here Rackham’s Acts of

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the New Testament.
Now this is perhaps the best

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commentary on the Acts of the
Apostles, but you won’t find

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much of what I shall say to you
later in these addresses in

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here.
But still I’ve brought it with

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me for this reason.
I thought if there were some

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questions on external matters,
well, I could fall back on him

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instead of falling back upon my
memory if there’s a standby.

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But I want to quote you just a
few sentences from him.

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We shall be abundantly
satisfied, he says in his

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introduction.
As to Luke’s historical

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accuracy, if we reflect on the
extraordinary test to which it

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was put, that is, the variety of
scene and circumstance with

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which he had to deal.
The ground covered reached from

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Jerusalem to Rome, taking in
Syria, Asia Minor, Greece, and

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Italy.
In that field were comprised all

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manner of population,
civilizations, administrations,

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Jewish and Oriental life,
Western civilization, great

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capitals like Antioch and
Epicus, Roman colonies,

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independent towns, Greek cities,
barbarian country, district.

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The history covers a period of
30 years, which witnessed in

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many parts great political
changes.

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Provinces like Cyprus and Akaya
were being exchanged between the

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Emperor and the Senate.
Parts of Asia Minor, for

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example, Presidio and La Keonia,
were undergoing a process of

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annexation and Latinization.
Judea itself was now a Roman

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province and Reprocurator now an
independent state under her

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Herodian king.
Yet in all this intricacy of

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political arrangement, Luke is
never found tripping.

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Instances of supposed mistake or
anachronism have indeed been

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alleged and laid to his charge.
But after examination, as will

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be pointed out in the
commentary, we are fairly

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entitled at least to answer that
they have not yet been proved.

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On the other hand, Luke is
equally at home with the

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Sanhedrin and its parties, the
priests and temple guard, and

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the Erodian Princess of
Jerusalem, with the proconsules

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of Cyprus and the Kaia.
And now Mark And Luke gives the

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perfectly right word to describe
all these varied offices, The

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rules of the synagogue and first
men of Antiochem.

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Pisidia, the priest of Zeus at
Lister, the Praters, victors and

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jailer at Philippi, the
polytopes of Thessalonica, the

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Ariopagus of Athens, the Asiats
with the people, Assembly and

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secretary of Ephesus, the
centurions, tribune and

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procurator of Judea, the first
man of Malta, and the captain of

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the camp at Rome.
And in every case, he’s got the

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right proper description of the
man concerned.

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Now to illustrate how easy it is
to fall into a pitfall.

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A fortnight ago I spotted this
note in the Weekly Spectator, an

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English serious journal, and the
editor indulges a column or two

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of lighter matter, but always
interesting.

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Now Vicon Simon, who is a very
well read, very learned man, was

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replying to a proposal in a
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And that, says the editor of the
Spectator, alighted on a passage

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in which Lord Simon illustrated
A contention by a reference to

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the proceedings of the Pickwick
Club at the classic of Dickens,

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as you know, perhaps, and in
particular to a derogatory

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epithet applied by Mr. Pickwick
to a fellow member.

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His name, I think was Mr.
Blossom of Aldwich.

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That pulled me up.
I said Wilson Harris, a

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reference to Aldwich in a book
published in 1836, when the old

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name had been dormant for
centuries.

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Whose was the slip?
The speakers or the reporters?

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I cannot say.
But the truth must be

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vindicated.
And the truth is that the

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gentleman’s name was Blatton,
which matters little, and his

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domicile Aldgate, which in the
circumstances matters quite a

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lot.
So you see, here is a cultured

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man, Lord Simon, according with
Eve, the reference to what is a

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work that’s entered into the
household tongue almost of the

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British people.
And in one sentence he makes 2

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mistakes.
He gives the man’s name wrong,

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and by an anachronism he gives
the old name Aldwich to what was

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afterwards changed to Algid.
But the whole point of the story

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is lost because Algid was the
place of a famous prison in the

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days of Dickens, and the
reference put into the mouth of

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Mr. Pickwick is a satirical one.
His name, I think, was Mr.

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Blotterman.
Aldwich is the representative of

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the prison.
It’s satirical and scornful, but

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by the change of name it’s all
lost.

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How easy it is to make a mistake
and look at all those pitfalls

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which we’ve illustrated in that
list of names of different

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places.
And never once has Luke been

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found to be wrong.
Some notes, and I want them to

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be distributed, please.
And then while you have your

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notes with you, I’ll go over
something concerning the

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structure and purpose of acts.
Will someone please help in the

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distribution of these notes?
I thought this was so important

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that when I was told that
anything would be done that

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would help, I ventured to impose
on the committee connected with

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this gathering one or two little
jobs in the way of cycler

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styling.
Note and I would like to.

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Luke punctuates his history and
act with a number of statements

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which bear a family resemblance
and which might be called

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progress report, each of which
concludes a section of his book.

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These guide the student in
analysing the book.

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They indicate how the apostles
fulfil their Lord’s Commission

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in Acts one and eight.
Now in Acts one and eight we

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read, and Jesus is giving this
Commission to the apostles.

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And Luke traces out in the
history how this Commission was

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faithfully discharged.
Ye shall receive power, said

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Jesus.
After that the Holy Spirit has

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come upon you, and ye shall be
witnesses unto me, both in

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Jerusalem and in all Judea, and
in Samaria, and unto the

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uttermost parts of the earth.
He shall receive power after

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that the Holy Spirit has come
upon you.

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So this work, said Luke, to
whomsoever it may concern and

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whoever is willing to read about
it, this work is a work that was

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guided by the Holy Spirit.
And this Holy Spirit was

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conferred by Jesus Christ,
ridden from the dead, who

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offended to the right hand of
power.

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But Luke tells us something
more.

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He tells us that the second book
that he’s writing was a

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continuation of the first.
You know that the precious of

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the Gospel tells us that it was
written to Theophilus.

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And in Acts he tells us that the
former treatise he wrote unto

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this most excellent Theophilus
in order that he might know

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this, which Jesus began to do
and teach.

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And if that word began.
But I think we’re justified in

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stressing because it’s the first
record of Luke.

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The Gospel is an account of what
Jesus began to do.

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Then Acts is a continuation of
what Jesus did.

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And therefore, we have the work
of Jesus continued through the

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instrumentality of the Spirit
guiding the men.

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In other words, Luke is claiming
that this movement is divine in

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its origins and divine in its
guided development during the

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course of the history that he is
recording.

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And we’ve given you in the next
paragraph some of the references

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where Luke tells us of the
Spirit guidance in this witness.

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They were continually guided by
gut Spirit.

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For example, in those
quotations.

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Now when we read Luke carefully,
we find that he is very

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discriminating in the space that
he allot to events.

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And if he devotes A considerable
amount of space to any

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particular thing, it is because
he attaches importance to it.

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He records, for example, Paul’s
conversion 3 times that the

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index of the importance he
attaches to this because Christ

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apprehended this one time
persecutor and made him the

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foremost executor of his work in
the spreading of the gospel

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throughout the Roman world.
Cornelius’s receptionist twice

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recorded because it was
important in illustrating the

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spread of this Gospel that it
was of divine purpose too that

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the Gentiles were received into
the Christian community.

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It refers to the Jerusalem
Decree 3 times, because that was

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an important arrangement made at
the Mother Church in Jerusalem

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whereby Gentile communities and
Jewish communities could live

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together harmoniously, and it
was a provision whereby those

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two diverse factions could be
welded together in one

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community.
Now we might note Luke’s

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permission.
It doesn’t tell us, although the

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book is called the Acts of the
Apostles, of the activities of

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all the apostles.
It centers in the work of Peter

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and of John.
And then in the second part, it

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is entirely taken up, or almost
entirely taken up with the work

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of the apostle Paul.
And the Gospel is taken first

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into Asia Minor, then into
Greece, then in the Asian

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province with episodes as its
capital, and then lastly Paul

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goes to Rome as a prisoner.
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proportion it must be evident
that Luke attaches considerable

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importance to the speeches.
I haven’t figured out what

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proportion of acts is devoted to
the speeches, but it’s a very

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considerable proportion.
And it is thus evidence that the

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record of the speeches, which is
a record of the testimony made

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of what was preached by these
1st century leaders, is

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important to the understanding
of this movement, to know for

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what it stood, to know what the
divine purpose that was embodied

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in it was set out to accomplish.
And therefore we shall devote

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our time principally in the
ensuing afternoons this week in

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an examination of the speeches.
The trial speeches take up an

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astonishing part of Acts.
About 1/3 of Acts is devoted to

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the time when Paul was arrested,
to his arrival in Rome.

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If we’ve got to write measures
for the importance of things, it

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is evident that Paul’s arrest
and the presentation of his case

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before the highest authorities
in Rome were vital to the object

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that Luke had in writing his
record.

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We shall see as we trace through
the book of Acts and

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particularly those trial
speeches, what Luke was aiming

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at, and I hope we shall thrill
with an understanding of the

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experiences of these 1st century
Christians.

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Will you please turn to your
second sheet, the analysis of

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Acts Roman triggers You’ve got
from 1:00 to 8:00.

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Those are the various decision
divisions of the book.

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You have in the second column
the references, chapter one,

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verse 1 to 247, and underneath
the words the Progress report.

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Now let us read down these
progress reports and observe the

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family likenesses.
Progress report number one.

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And the Lord added to the church
daily such as should be saved.

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Progress report #2.
And great fear came upon all the

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church, and upon as many as
heard these things, and

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believers were the more added to
the Lord multitudes, both of men

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and women.
Progress report #3 And the word

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of God increased, and the number
of disciples multiplied in

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Jerusalem greatly.
And the great company of the

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priests were obedient to the
faith. 4 Then Judea and Galilee

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and Samaria, and were edified.
Now you’ll notice in progress

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three that the disciples
multiplied in Jerusalem.

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Luke is telling us of the
progress of the work, and he

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punctuates his remarks by the
progress reports and says how

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it’s been fulfilled.
Jerusalem.

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Now in Section 4, the churches
addressed throughout all Jubea

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and Galilee and Samaria, and
were edified and walking in the

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fear of the Lord and in the
comfort of the Holy Spirit were

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multiplied 5.
And the word of God grew and

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multiplied 6.
So were the churches established

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in the faith and increased in
number daily.

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And that follows the account of
his first missionary journey and

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the report at the end of the
second missionary journey.

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Section 7.
So mightily grew the word of God

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and prevailed.
And the last section closes the

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book.
And it may not seem to fit in

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with the suggestions we’re
making, but we shall see, God

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willing, when we come to our
last study on Saturday, how

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remarkably that ending of Acts
conforms to the aim and purpose

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of these other endings.
Now, if you mark your Bibles,

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some do, some don’t.
I’m a a constant Hubble marker

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myself.
You might, in the margins of

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your Bibles at these points,
just indicate some ways of your

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own devising.
So this is the end of one of

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Luke’s sections.
And then you can have a little

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exercise in analysing each
section and observing out

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perfectly.
Luke, within the compass of that

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section, moves forward in the
development of this historical

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theme.
You have another page, which as

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a matter of convenience I
thought would help you, which

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gives an outline of the events
in Acts and their days.

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I’m not going to go over that,
but such a list is of continual

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help to students in relating
events to the progress of time.

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And with that we’ll close.
I’ve forgotten one thing.

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Perhaps I might go back to it.
Who was Luke?

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He never tells us and he never
mentions himself.

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And the only time we know of him
is when he uses we.

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We when he’s with Paul, he says
we.

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But there’s a hint, a hint in
Corinthians that Luke and Typhus

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were brothers.
And when we think of the

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magnificent work that Typhus did
with that very difficult

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ecclesia, that Corinth, we can
see there were two very two

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brothers, a very outstanding
stature, who were poor

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companions.
And they formed with her mothers

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a very magnificent group of
pioneers whose work is a source

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of continual helpfulness as we
studied.

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Thank you.