Excerpt from Historic Discourse Delivered at the Quarter Century Anniversary: Of the Second Presbyterian Church, Terre Haute, Indiana, December 27, 1873 d104 - But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city. - Acts xxi. 39. How different our circumstances to-night from those of the Apostle Paul, when he uttered the words of the text. All Jerusalem was in an uproar. So enraged were the people that some cried one thing and some another. And they went about to kill him. But when tidings came to the chief captain, with his soldiers, he ran down and rescued Paul. And when in the castle, the chief captain examined him and said: "Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers ? " But Paul said: "I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city." This answer simply sets forth the nativity of the apostle, and not as many suppose a claim of freedom from scourging or other violence. Such a claim he afterward set up on the ground of Roman citizenship, but here his answer may be regarded as simply declaring whom he was, and, incidentally, the honest pride he entertained for the city of Tarsus, the home of his childhood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.