Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... to his writings and makes them a perpetual source of spiritual impulse, though of course it involves some liability of mistaken interpretation, especially on the part of those who refuse to recognize the element of fervid oratory and insist on construing the apostle as a mere logician. His nature was too broad to be described by a single category. It was after an ecumenical type. Jewish depth of religious feeling, Hellenic zest for argument and speculation, and Roman energy of will and consequent ability for conquest had each a counterpart in the apostle to the Gentiles. III.--General Conceptions Of God, Of The World, And Of The Rational Creation, Which UnderLie The Pauline Epistles. Paul's conception of God may be defined as the Hebraic modified by the revelation in Christ and by personal experience. On the metaphysical side he manifests no ambition to serve as an expounder of the divine nature. The ideas which he brings forward in this relation are the same as those to which Old Testament prophecy at its zenith gave expression. He abides by its combination of distinct personality with transcendent greatness. So far as can be judged, he attributes the being as well as the particular forms of things to creative efficiency. The creation was a means of bringing to manifestation the invisible power of God.1 He is the one God of whom are all things.2 He is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.1 Instrumentalities which the natural judgment of men condemns as feeble and ineffective He is competent to arm with victorious potency. The foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.2 All striving is empty of result apart from His cooperation. Neither is he that planteth anything, nor...
