y his kind
permission.

Paul's ship touched here on her way to Rome, remaining in the harbor
three days.
[End illustration]

[Illustration]
PUTEOLI.

Photograph taken by Arthur S. Cooley, Ph.D., and used by his kind
permission.

This was one of the ports of Rome, where the great corn ship on which
Paul sailed discharged her cargo. This city was on the northern shores
of the famous Bay of Naples. Across the bay was the naval station of
Rome, where the imperial fleet lay at anchor. "The angry neighbor of
Naples was not then an unsleeping volcano, but a green and sunny
background to the bay. No one could have suspected that the time was
so near when the admiral of the fleet at Misenum would be lost in its
fiery eruption; and little did the apostle dream, as he looked from
the 'Twin Brothers'' deck across the bay, that a ruin like that of
Sodom and Gomorrah hung over the fair cities of Herculaneum and
Pompeii at the base of the mountain, and that the Jewish princess, who
had so lately conversed with him in his prison at Caesarea, would find
her tomb in the ruins."
[End illustration]

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III

A CITIZEN OF THE EMPIRE

_The Roman Officer Discovers that Paul is a Fellow-Citizen, and Offers
an Apology_.

The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, bidding
that he should be examined by scourging, that he might know for what
cause, they so shouted against him. And when they had tied him up with
the thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, "Is it lawful
for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?"

And when the centurion heard it, he went to the chief captain, and told
him, saying, "What art thou about to do? for this man is a Roman."

And the chief captain came, and said unto him, "Tell me, art thou a
Roman?"

And he said, "Yea."

And the chief captain answered, "With a great sum obtained I this
citizenship."

And Paul said, "But I am a Roman born."

They then which were about to examine him straightway departed from him:
and the chief captain also was afraid, when he knew that he was a Roman,
and because he had bound him.

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IV

PAUL BEFORE THE COUNCIL.

_A Division Among the Members_.

But on the morrow, desiring to know why he was accused of the Jews, he
loosed him, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come
together, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.

And Paul, lookin