caused uproars in society and was a leader of four thousand murderers (Acts 21:38). All of these descriptions would fit his actions, but Paul was not any of these. He was not a non-religious, atheistic, God-hating man like Nazis and Communists of our age who have no mercy but are filled with cruelty toward mankind. Paul was surprisingly a far different man. We will discover in examining his race, his region, his raising, and his religion that he was of noble extract, of excellent upbringing, well
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