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LESSON VIILSECOND QUARTER, INTER-
, NATIONAL SERIES, MAY 24.
Text of the Lesson. Acts xxvl. 19-39-
‘e_¢\.y ve"¢¢_ 27-20-Golden Terb
Acts xxvi, 22-Commentary Pre-
pared by Rev. D. Ill. Stearns.
[(}g||y|-ight, 1903, by American Press Association]
I9. VVhereupon. O King Agflpva-  “'35
not disobedient unto the heavenly sision.
Our last lesson gave us Pauls tcstl-
mony before Felix and his wife. After
two years Festus succeeded Felix, and
Paul was still a prisoner. The hatred
ers was unabated, and they were still
longing to kill Paul. Festus told them
to come to C-aesarea and give their 198°
tlmony against him, which they did. I
but, as before, could prove nothing.
When Festus asked him if he was will-
ing to go to Jerusalem and be tried
there, he appealed to Caesar. In due
time King Agrippa and Bernice come
to Cmsarea to visit Festus, and he tells
them of Paul the prisoner and how the
whole trouble between diim and his ac-
cusers seemed to be about “one Jesus,
who was dead, whom Paul atiirmed to
be alive” (xxv, 19). Kin! AKHDD8 3°?
airing to hear him, and he, with Ben-
nice and all the great ones being as-
sembled, Paul is brought before them
and is permitted to speak tor himself.
He told of his early life, his zeal in
the Jews’ religion, the appearance of
the Lord Jesus to him on the way to
Damascus and His commission to car-
ry to the gentiles the knowledge of the
forgivenss of sins and inheritance in
the kingdom through Jesus Christ.
It 31. That they should repent and turn
is God and do works meet for repentance.
These things he preached as he was
commissioned at Damascus, Jerusa-
lem. throughout J udaea and to the gen- ;; ‘
tiles, and because of this, he said. the
Jews wanted to kill_him. Well, they
had killed the Lord Jesus and Stephen
and James andotherl. and Paul him-
self had taken a hand in some of it.
so he 'knew just what it meant and
why it was. and no one knew better.
But his eyes had been opened, and now
the risen-Christ was to him the great-
est realiw in the universe. '
1 Having -therefore obtained help of
God, I continue unto this day, witnessing
both to dial! and grssbmscsying none oth-
¢ thingo than those h the prophets
uid 1los§ did ass nliould some-» *
All could see that there werecertail
writingufani a certain person _spoken-
ef in  writings in which and in
whom. ,aul had absolute coniidence.
It waseertainly a great privilege thus
to be permitted to bear -witness to
Christ the Scriptures besoresucl) -a
congregation, but it was a very serious
matter for the congregation. Better
for themnever to have heard the good
news than to hear and reject it. Yet
we are commissioned to proclaim it to
every creature, and God will take care
of the results. _
ouid sni!e_r, and that
first that should rise
should shew light unto
e gsntiies. _v ‘_
taught tl\it_._,it be
missl
if  .gp
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er and to rise from
day and that repent
 on of sins should be
preached m His name among all na-
tions (Luke xxiv, 46, 47). The gospel
:which Paul preached was that Christ
died for our sins according to the
Scriptures, and that He was buried,
and that He rose again the third day,
according to the Scriptures, and that
through Him is preached the forgive-
nessofsins,and by Himall thatbe-
lieve are justified from all things (I
Cor. xv, 3, 4; Acts xiii, 38, 39).
it-26. And as he thus spake for himself
Festul said, with a loud voice: Paul, thou
art beside thyself. Much learning doth
make thee mad. ........~...'.
"' Paul said that he was not mad, but
had only spoken words of truth and
soberness and was persuaded that
Agrlppa knew the truth of- the things
whereof he had spoken. In Isa. lix,
15, margin, it is written, "Yea, truth
faileth, anglhe that departeth from evil
is accounted mad.” In Bos. ix, 7, we
read, “The prophet is a fool, the spir-
itual man is mad.” They said to the
Lord Jesus, “Thou art a Samaritan and
hast a devil”`(John vii, 20; viii, 48); so
we need not wonder when hard things
are said of ns or to us for Christe
IRRG. ' ' F
2?. King Asrlvnt. believest' thou the
prophets? I know that thou believeet.
Paul was persuaded that the king
was not ignorant of the events which
had so recently transpired at Jerusa-
lem or of the predictionsthus in part
fulfilled. If the question should be
asked of believers now, “Believest thou
the prophets?" the answers might be
very varied, but no doubt many would
_have to plead ignorance of what the
prophets had written.
38. 89. Then Agrippu said unto Paul, Al-
most thou persuaded me to be s Chris-
tion. .
The revised version says, “With but
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