Acts of the Apostles - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 1155

ACTS. 18-—¤ IO II

I2 teachers, particularly such as Bama- bas, Simeon called Niger, Luciusthe Cyreniau, and Manaen, the school- fellow of Herod the tetrarch and Saul. And while they were worship~ ping the Lord, and &sting, the Holy Spirit said, “ You must set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work Then fasting and praying, and laying their hands upon them, they dispawhed them. Under the guidance of the Holy

Spirit, they accordingly went down to Seleucia; and &om there they sailed to Cyprus. And arriving at Salamis, they proclaimed the message of God in the jewish synagogues; and they also had John as a helper. Sigma: ily: #¤£i¥iau. And going through the whole of the

island as far as Paphos, they found a certain judean, a magician and sham prophet, named Bar~]esus; who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence. He invited Barnabas and Saul, desiring to listen to the message of God. But Elymas the magician (for such is the name when translated), opposed them, at- tempting to divert the proconsul from the faith. But Saul, whois also named Paul,

full of Holy Spirit, looking at him sternly, said, “ O you full of all deceit, and every villainy, you son of the Devil, you enemy of all righteous- ness, will you never cease to mis- represent the straight paths of the Lord ? But even new the hand of the Lord is upon you ; you shall be blind, and for a dmc you shall not see the And immediately a mist and darkness came over him ;·and stagger- ing, he groped for some one to lead him by the hand. The proconsul,,on seeing what had happened, believed, being struck with the teaching of the Lord. Qaida Smumt at Qntinrly. Paul and his company now set sail

from Paphos, and went to Perga, in Pamphylia; but john, separating from them, returned to jerusalem. Then, proceeding from Perga, they arrived at Antioch of Pisidia; and, entering the synagogue on the Sabbath day, they sat down. Then, after , the reading, of the law and the prophets, the leaders of the synagogue

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Men, brothers, if you have any comforting mmgo for the people, speak it.’ Paul accordingly stood np, and, waving his hand, said Men of Israel, and those that

reverence God, listen. The God of this people Israel chose our fore- fathers and raised up the nation during their residence in the land of Egypt, and with a high arrnlieled them out of it. And for the space of about forty years He endured their behaviour in the desert. Afterwards, when He had conquered seven nations in the land of Canaan, He entrusted them with the ssion of their country for aggut four hundred and hfty years; and, con- temporary with these events, He gave judges until the end of Samuel the prophet. And when they de- manded a kingdom, then God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of thetribe of Benjamin, for the period of forty years. and whenHe had re- moved him, He raised up David for them into the Hngdom; and, giving evidence about him, He said, Davm run sou or Jnssn I navn rouun A MAN Arran MY own HEAR':. WH0 w1LL Bxncurm ALL MY PURPOSES. From his race God has, according to promise, brought to Israel a Saviour jesus; john, having to introduce His appearance, proclaimed beforehand a baptism for conversion to all the people of Israel. And asjohn was completing his mission, he said, ‘What do you suppose me to be? Not I Ax; but, on the contrary, there follows me One, the shoes of Whose feet I am not worthy to unfasten. *Men, brothers, sons of Abra-

ham’s race, and those among you who reverence God, to us the mes- sage of this salvation is sent; for the inhabitants of jerusalem, and their rulers, ignoring this, and the voices of the prophets read. every Sabbath, have fulhlled it by condemning Him; and of Pilate, who found no capital crime, they demanded that He should be executed. But when they had completed all that had been written about Him, taking Him down from the tree, they placed Him in a. tomb. But God raised Him from the dead; and upon several days He appeared to those who accompanied Him from i 1 Sam. xiii. 14. 1155

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