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Title: The Jews in ancient, mediaeval and modern times
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Hosmer, James Kendall, 1834-1927
Subjects: Jews
Publisher: London : T. Fisher Unwin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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f persecution. But sud-denly there shined about him a light from heaven,and he fell to the earth and heard a voice, saying : Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ? and whenhe had been instructed, there fell from his eyes as ithad been scales, and straightway he preached Christ,that he is the Son of God. Thus the band gainedthe great apostle to the Gentiles, who at lengthcould give this summing up of work and danger: In labors abundant, in stripes above measure, inprisons frequent, in death oft: of the Jews five times Ireceived forty stripes save one, thrice was I beatenwith rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered ship-wreck, a day and a night I have been in the deep: injourneyings often, in perils of waters, in perils ofrobbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perilsby the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in thevv^ilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among falsebrethren, in weariness and painfulness, in watchingsoften, in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness.
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92 THE STORY OF THE JEWS. What preachers of a great cause have ever sufferedmore ! What preachers of a great cause have everwon success so triumphant ! Not all, even of those Avho claim the Christianname, have believed that in this first-born of aJewish mother, God became flesh and dwelt withmen. Not all have been able to believe thatabout the plain facts there has been no accretion ofmyth ; that the stories of the multitudinous heav-enly host appearing among the clouds, of the waterblushing into wine, of the new pulses of life in thecorrupting bodies of Lazarus and the son of thewidow of Nain, or of the multiplying of the loavesand fishes, are to be received with faith as undoubt-ing as that a great teacher once walked by Gali-lee, and spoke to his countrjmen from the Mount.Whether ordinary occurrence or unparalleled marvel,the ancient record narrates the circumstances withequal simplicity and directness. Fortunately it doesnot belong to him who writes this story of the Jewsto say wh

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