This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...in almost every city, willing to join in any cry or to engage in any mischief which gives promise of plunder or gluttony. By these the whole city was set in uproar, and the house of Jason, the door of which had been opened in loving hospitality to the Apostle and his companions, like many other houses ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...in almost every city, willing to join in any cry or to engage in any mischief which gives promise of plunder or gluttony. By these the whole city was set in uproar, and the house of Jason, the door of which had been opened in loving hospitality to the Apostle and his companions, like many other houses which in time of persecution have received the prophets and evangelists of the Lord, was assaulted. Paul and Silas were away when the attack was made; but Jason, and some of the brethren, were seized, and conducted to the presence of the rulers, or to give the word which Luke uses, politarchs, a title still to be seen on an ancient arch of the city. Jason was charged with receiving men who were guilty of breaking the peace and subverting the Roman order by proclaiming, in opposition to the authority of Cassar, another King, even Jesus. The politarchs and the more quietly disposed of the people were troubled by these statements, being apprehensive of a disturbance which might bring them into difficulties with the great powers at Rorne. They were, however, more deliberate and more careful not to proceed to injustice than the magistrates of Philippi; taking for security a pledge that the law should not be broken, of Jason and the others, they let them go. When night came, and darkness veiled the streets, the brethren sent Paul and Silas to Berea, where also they resorted to the synagogue. But those by whom it was frequented were 'more noble' than the Jews of Thessalonica; for instead of kindling into fury and insult at the mention of Jesus as the Messiah, they 'searched the Scriptures, ' the rolls of the law and the prophets, ' daily, whether those things were so, '--an example of candour and regard for the authority of God's Word which all...
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