everywhere to repent and to prepare for facing their judge, Paul was not deferentially presenting a motion for philosophical debate: he was delivering a command from almighty God to be obeyed. This, at any rate, was the dynamo that motivated and empowered the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. Acts will gently inquire whether we are wired up to the same dynamo. Two things lie on the surface of Acts. The first is that Christianity sprang out of Judaism, in the sense that all the