The Committee of the Conference of Bishops at Lambeth, 1897, in a report commended by the bishops as a body to the 'consideration of all Christian people,' write: 'Your committee do not hold that a true view of Holy Scripture forecloses any legitimate question about the literary character or literal accuracy of different parts or stat
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The Committee of the Conference of Bishops at Lambeth, 1897, in a report commended by the bishops as a body to the 'consideration of all Christian people,' write: 'Your committee do not hold that a true view of Holy Scripture forecloses any legitimate question about the literary character or literal accuracy of different parts or statements of the Old Testament.'
2
Acts xxiv 14; xxvi. 6, 7, 22, 23; 2 Tim i. 3.
5
Galatians, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Romans.
7
Acts ix. 20; 1 Cor. viii. 6; Rom. ix. 5; 2 Cor. viii. 9; Gal. iv. 4.
8
Colossians, Ephesians, Philippians, Philemon.
9
Col. ii. 18: 'by a voluntary humility (or 'taking delight in humility') and worshipping of the angels.'
10
See i. 13-20; ii. 2, 3, 9-23; iii. 11. Cf. i. 27-28.
11
Hort, Judaistic Christianity (Macmillan, 1894), p. 125.
13
Cf. Hort, Prolegomena to Romans and Ephesians (Macmillan, 1895), p. 100.
14
Col. iv. 2-4; Philemon 22; Phil. i. 12-14.
15
Ramsay, Paul the Traveller (Hodder and Stoughton, 1895), pp. 130 ff.
17
See Mommsen, Provinces of Roman Empire (Eng. trans.), i. 344 ff.; Lightfoot, Ign. and Polyc. iii. pp. 404 ff.
19
Tatian, Ad Graecos, 28, 32.
21
Rom. xiii. 1-7; cf. ii. Thess. ii. 6.
25
Lightfoot, Galatians, 'St. Paul and Seneca,' pp. 287 ff.
27
'The zeal of its inhabitants for philosophy and general culture is such that they have surpassed even Athens and Alexandria and all other cities where schools of philosophy can be mentioned. And its pre-eminence in this respect is so great because there the students are all townspeople, and strangers do not readily settle there.' Strabo, xiv. v. 13. I do not suppose that St. Paul received any formal education in Greek schools at Tarsus. But I think we must assume that at some period St. Paul had sufficient contact with Gentile educated opinion, whether at Tarsus or elsewhere, to be acquainted with widely-spread religious and philosophical tendencies.
28
Cf. Hort, Christian Ecclesia, p. 143.
35
Among other articles of commerce, tents made in Ephesus had a special reputation, and St. Paul and Aquila had special opportunities there for the exercise of their trade. Acts xx. 34.
37
Migne, P. L. xxvi. 441.
40
Hort, Prolegomena, p. 83.
43
'From the fifth to the tenth hour' (11 a.m. to 4 p.m.), an early addition to the text of the Acts tells us; i. e. after work hours, when the school would naturally be vacant and St. Paul would have finished his manual labour at tent-making. Ramsay, l. c. p. 276.
46
Prof. Ramsay asserts that instead of 'robbers of temples' (Acts xix. 37), we should translate 'disloyal to the established government.' l. c. p. 282. But the word is used in the former sense in special connexion with Ephesus by Strabo, xiv. 1, 22, and Pseudo-Heracleitus, Ep. 7, p. 64 (Bernays).
47
See app. note B, p. 253, on the contemporary 'letters of Heracleitus.'
55
Tertullian, de An. 39, rightly interprets 1 Cor. vii. 14, 'now are they [the children of whose parents one was a Christian] holy,' as meaning, now are they already consecrated and marked out for baptismal sanctification by the prerogative of their birth.
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Cf. 1 Cor. viii. 6; Col. i. 16.
