...after the most straitest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee. And now I stand, and am judged for 6 the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers : unto which 7 promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake,...

...sustaining principle of the religion of the twelve tribes:—' unto which ' promise' (said saint Paul) ' our twelve tribes, ' instantly serving God day and night, hope to ' come.' He was the hope of Israel, their shepherd, the messenger of the covenant, in whom they delighted. His...

...beginning, (if they would testify,) that after the most straitest sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee. And now I stand, and am judged for the hope of the...hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead^ I verily thought...

...be most exactly applied the noble apology of Paul when pleading before Agrippa. " I stand," says he, "and am judged, for the hope of the promise made of...hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews."* I propose then, in this Section of my Appeal, to undertake the defence of those who stand in the same...

...beginning, if they would testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee. And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the...our fathers : unto which promise our twelve tribes hope to come, for which hope's sake, King Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Why should it be thought...

..." I stand and am judged ;" that is, I stand arraigned for a declaration of the hope of the promise of God unto our fathers, unto which promise our twelve...instantly serving God day and night, hope to come : this is their warm, their consoling expectation. Why then should I be singled out as holding unsound...

...all equally known, and refers to it as a well-known fact before Agrippa and the Jews then present, " unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come," (Acts xxvi. 7) — and St. James directs his Epistle " to the twelve tribes that are scattered abroad."...

...beginning', (if they would testify,) that after the straitest sect of our religion', Ilived a Pharisee*. And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise that 3 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you', at God should raise the dead*? I verily...

...see how the New Testament will bear out this notion. In the Acts of the Apostles we have, xxvi. 7, " Unto which (promise) our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night (not in a state of heathenism, and undiscovered), hope to come." So St. James, i. 1, "James, a servant...

...promised land was, that it should be fulfilled to the Patriarchs by a resurrection. " And now (he " says) I stand and am judged for the " hope of the promise made of God " unto owe fathers • unto which pro" mise our twelve tribes, instantly " serving God day and night, hope...