A History of the Testament Times, Vol. 3

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Excerpt from A History of the Testament Times, Vol. 3: The Time of the Apostles IN the usual course of events, great movements Shape them selves, as it were, at the outset, before a leader takes them in hand. The great ideas are uttered and repeated by the multi tude, are perhaps realized in small societies, until thought some where ripens into resolution, and an individual plucks up courage to make his lifelong profession of what the multitude practise as occasion offers. The man who did this for the Christian Church was Paul. So far, he begins a new epoch in the history of Christianity. His importance lies, firstly, in the task to which he devoted his life. He took up the preaching of the Kingdom, which was heard no more in Galilee, and renewed it through all the length and breadth of the Dispersion. It lies, secondly, In his radical temper. He did not hesitate to push to its logical conclusions the doctrine that participation in the Kingdom was simply dependent on the relation to J cans, and therefore rejected the Jewish law as super¿uous and harmful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.