Excerpt from The Works of Ezekiel Hopkins, D. D., Successively Bishop of Raphoe and Derry, Vol. 3 of 3: Death Disarmed of Its Sting, and Miscellaneous Sermons I shall not at all enter into the consideration of the apology but let us look only at the different effects, that it wrought upon the hearers. Festus and Agrippa were both of them unbelievers: the one, an unbelieving heathen; the other, an unbelieving Jew and thus they both continue. Yet St. Paul's speech works very differently upon them. In the 24th verse you have Festus raving. He said with a loud voice, 'paul, thou art beside thyself, much learning doth make thee mad thy thoughts of a vision and an apparition, of a man dead and buried, lying safe under ground, that he should rise again and appear from heaven to thee, being the Saviour of the world, is a mere fancy, proceeding from a strong frenzy thus he scoffs and raves. But this very sermon, which seemed mad ness and an idle tale to unbelieving Festus, carries a strong convio tion in it to Agrippa, who was an unbeliever too: Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. 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.