Tag: paul
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Julian and Paul: Passengers on a grain-laden slow-sailing ship
When we last left Paul beginning his long journey to Rome, the Apostle had boarded a small ship of Adramyttian sailing from Caesarea along the coast north of Cypress to Myra in Lycia. There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy, and he put us aboard it. Acts of the Apostles 27:6 LSB…
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Transporting Paul – Citizen Prisoner of Caesar- Acts 27
The Apostle Paul, a Jew among Jews commissioned by Christ to go into all the world of the gentiles — after taking the Gospel to the Greeks since A.D. 47 — is now a prisoner sent to Rome. In the year of our Lord 59: Roman Prisoners (Chattel of Caesar) Make no mistake about it:…
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šā’ûl servant of the living Yeshua
Saul’s defense of himself and the Gospel ἀπολογέομαι – apologeomai To the Greeks the Apostle to the gentiles is Παῦλος – Paulos or Paul. And to Romans encountering this fellow Roman citizen from Tarsus certainly fluent in the Latin of their heritage, the Apostle would be called Paulus. But to the Aramaic Jews of Jerusalem…
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