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...first Paul got for his answer nothing. Then out of the silence came to him a thought that gradually shaped itself into the word of the Lord, "My grace is sufficient for thee." Nothing is more unphilosophical than the argument that prayer is merely reflective. Contact and influence is one of the interest realities of human existence. Why should not divine influence be more real? Paul came to regard it as very real...
...Drama is a fruitful subject for investigation for its part in French literary history has always been important. If English-speaking nations have been influenced at all by the French, we might therefore suppose the drama to be an important point of contact. The answer is both yes and no. The number of French plays reproduced in England and America has indeed been prodigious, but so boldly have we copied that a mere translation or a slight recasting of the plays has been thought sufficient. The result has been plagiarism, not a gradual and subtle improvement...
...majority of Paul's speeches are recounted in the Acts of the apostles and in reading them we must bear in mind the fact that Paul was easily influenced by surrounding circumstances, and by his contact with other nations. His style was strikingly characteristic, and was at times intensely finished. All his speeches are filled with the socalled Pauline element, which deals with Christ as Saviour of the Jew and the Gentile, the Lord of the spiritual world, rather than a fulfillment...
Paul was educated at Tarsus a conservative Jew. Nevertheless he was more or less influenced by his contact with other nationalities. He wrote and except in one instance spoke in Greek. His works lead us to think he was more or less influenced by the rhetors or sophists, a class of men who addressed mainly the intellect and the aesthetic taste...
...Bible class which has been meeting on Wednesday evenings, has taken up the following subjects: Babylonia; Persian mon archy; Post-exilian psalms, giving aims and emotions of Jews; formation of Old Testament canon; the Temple and Synagogue and great influence on early Christianity of Jewis ideas, strengthened by contact with Persians. Last Wednesday night Haggai was studied from a literary standpoint, and approached as a preacher or writer of our own time. Five points of interpretation or higher criticism were considered: character of author; plan of composition of the prophecy; date of composition; the people to whom work was addressed...