Author: Thomas Pyle

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-02-16

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9780243381425

Excerpt from A Paraphrase on the Acts of the Holy Apostles, Upon All the Epistles of the New Testament, and Upon the Revelations, Vol. 2: With a Short Preface to Each Epistle, Shewing the Occasion and Design of It; The Several Argument Set at the Head of Each Chapter; And General Indexes to All the Principal Matters, Words, and Phrases in the New Testament; For the Use of Families For the chief observations that are to let the render into the main argument of this Epistle, I refer him to the preface of the Epistle to the Romans. Of those questions which he there finds to be the subject of them both, this one is more particularly handled in this letter against the Jewish Christians, viz. W726 t/ier circumcision and tl'zefull observation of the cc remonial law of Moses were necessary to tile sal vation of a Christian convert 9 All I now further observe is, the same factious and calumniating spi rit of these Jewish zealots of Galatia, with those of Rome and Corinth, the better to insinuate them selves with some people, they [suggested St. Paul to be, at the bottom, a favourer of the Jewish law; but to others that knew him better, they represented the apostle as one not immediately commissioned by Christ, as Peter, James, and John, 810. Were but to be an apostle at second-hand thus derogating from the authority of his commission, and the certainty of his doctrine. This will give the reader the true Spi rit of the several expressions which tend to vindi cate both his apostleship, and the sincerity and con sistency of St. Paul's behaviour in the controversy. 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.