them had the combination of gifts
necessary to attempt the conversion of the Gentile world on a large
scale. They were Galilean fishermen, fit enough to teach and preach
within the bounds of their native Palestine. But beyond Palestine lay
the great world of Greece and Rome--the world of vast populations, of
power and culture, of pleasure and business. It needed a man of
unlimited versatility, of education, of immense human sympathy and
breadth, to go out there with the gospel message--a man who could not
only be a Jew to the Jews, but a Greek to the Greeks, a Roman to the
Romans, a barbarian to the barbarians--a man who could encounter not
only rabbis in their synagogues, but proud magistrates in their courts
and philosophers in the haunts of learning--a man who could face travel
by land and by sea, who could exhibit presence of mind in every variety
of circumstances, and would be cowed by no difficulties. No man of
this size belonged to the original apostolic circle; but Christianity
needed such an one, and he was found in Paul.

12. Originally attached more strictly than any of the other apostles
to the peculiarities and prejudices of Jewish exclusiveness, he cut his
way out of the jungle of these prepossessions, accepted the equality of
all men in Christ, and applied this principle relentlessly in all its
issues. He gave his heart to the Gentile mission, and the history of
his life is the history of how true he was to his vocation. There was
never such singleness of eye or wholeness of heart. There was never
such superhuman and untiring energy. There was never such an
accumulation of difficulties victoriously met and of sufferings
cheerfully borne for any cause. In him Jesus Christ went forth to
evangelize the world, making use of his hands and feet, his tongue and
brain and heart, for doing the work which in His own bodily presence He
had not been permitted by the limits of His mission to accomplish.

CHAPTER II

HIS UNCONSCIOUS PREPARATION FOR HIS WORK

Paragraphs 13-36.

14-16. DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH. His Love
of Cities. 17, 18. HOME.
19-26. EDUCATION. 19. Roman citizenship; 20. Tent-making;
21, 22. Knowledge of Greek Literature; 23-26.
Rabbinical Training. Gamaliel. Knowledge of
Old Testament.
27-30. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT.
28. The Law; 29, 30. Departure from and return to
Jerusalem.
31-33. ST