Jews and Paul by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Feb 15, 1910

Jews and Paul

By Editor

3041.— J. H. B.— Jews and Paul.— No, the Jews were not Romans, they were an entirely different race of people. The Jews sprang from Shem, Noah's oldest son; the Romans from Japheth, another son of Noah. The Jews, however, were under the Romans. Under the Romans some of them possessed Roman citizenship, as did Paul. He was born in the free city of Tarsus; and as a citizen of that city he possessed Roman citizenship, just as an Englishman, or a Frenchman, or a German might become a citizen of this country. Paul lived at the time the other apostles did. Of course, he was converted to Christianity after the other apostles were. They were with Christ for three and one half years before Paul learned Christ. After that they were associated more or less together.

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