Paul
Paul of Tarsus, also called Paul the Apostle, the Apostle
Paul, and Saint Paul, (Ancient Greek: Σαούλ (Saul), Σαῦλος
(Saulos), and Παῦλος (Paulos); Latin: Paulus or Paullus;
Hebrew: שאול התרסי Šaʾul HaTarsi (Saul of Tarsus)[3] (c. 5 BC
- c. 67 AD ),[2] was a Jew[4] who called himself the "Apostle
to the Gentiles". According to the Acts of the...
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Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the
Thessalonians [which is] in God the Father and [in] the Lord
Jesus Christ: Grace [be] unto you, and peace, from God our
Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ....
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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according
to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,...
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Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the
saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ
Jesus:...
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LITERATURE
I. Sources.
1. The Acts:
For discussion of the historical value of the Acts of the
Apostles see the article on that subject. It is only necessary
to say here that the view of Sir W.M. Ramsay in general is
accepted as to the trustworthiness of Luke, whose authorship
of the Acts is accepted and proved by Harnack (Die
Apostelgeschichte...
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-Also called SAUL
Ac 8:1; 9:1; 13:9
-From the tribe of Benjamin,
Ro 11:1; Php 3:5
-Personal appearance of
2Co 10:1,10; 11:6
-Born in the city of Tarsus
Ac 9:11; 21:39; 22:3
-Educated at Jerusalem in the school of Gamaliel
Ac 22:3; 26:4
-A zealous Pharisee
Ac 22:3; 23:6; 26:5; 2Co 11:22; Ga 1:14; Php 3:5
-A Roman citizen
Ac 16:37; 22:25...
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(small, little). Nearly all the original materials for the
life St. Paul are contained in the Acts of the Apostles and
in the Pauline epistles. Paul was born in Tarsus, a city of
Cilicia. (It is not improbable that he was born between A.D.
0 and A.D. 5.) Up to the time of his going forth as an
avowed preacher of Christ to the Gentiles, the apo...
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=Saul (q.v.) was born about the same time as our Lord. His
circumcision-name was Saul, and probably the name
Paul was also
given to him in infancy "for use in the Gentile
world," as
"Saul" would be his Hebrew home-name. He was a
native of Tarsus,
the capital of Cilicia, a Roman province in the
south-east of
Asia Minor. That city stood on t...
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frontACTS, THE BOOK OF.) The leading facts of his life which
appear in that history, subsidiary to its design of sketching
the great epochs in the commencement and development of
Christ's kingdom, are: his conversion (Acts 9), his labours at
Antioch (Acts 11), his first missionary journey (Acts 13; 14),
the visit to Jerusalem at the council on...
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