Story of the principal
Having thought about Paul
2013-06-29
And while I say, June is going to be over. I am regarding June as "the moon of Paul". When it says why it is, June 29 is "a holiday of Saint petoro, St. Paul", but this is because it celebrated June 30 in particular in the monastic order which there was before as "a large holiday of Saint Paul".
Therefore June is always a month of Paul among me. I reached a month of St. Paul for me and was one month when I talked about "St. Paul" to a student hot again this year.
It was the one which I arrived and talked about of St. Paul, but it was for me to a student this year last year at the time of the special big crop as well as this year.
Paul (A.D. 5-67) born in a town called tarusosu of the State of genus state drill Kia of Rome (equal to the current southern part of Turkey) is brought up with the parents of the strict Judaist, and it is indicated from the letter which he wrote it to have had Rome citizenship.
And I study young in Jerusalem. I belong to the F re-rhinoceros group to assume the strict legalism for the religious life a base and speak Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and it is said that I learned law with Sopher Gamaliel whom it is said to in Jerusalem that five best. In addition, I deny Christianity as polytheism and am described as a thing approving of killing of Stephano who became the first martyr. (to apostle record of a person's sayings and deeds seven chapters 54 sections - eight chapters one section)
Paul who devoted passion to following law strictly filled with enthusiasm really escalates for the persecution of the Christian. The Christian is afraid of Paul. He persecutes a Christian, and there is the fact that I arrest you and took to Jerusalem. I get permission to catch konda Christians including an escape from damasuko and have a mysterious event on the way to damasuko.
Is what it was just what to be written on one node - 19 nodes of nine chapters of the apostle record of a person's sayings and deeds? Nobody sees how it said, and there is no objective explanation entirely. But it is written in the New Testament only that subsequent Paul speaks Christianity with the same passion that persecuted a Christian to follow Judaism and told.
As for the event called "a change of heart of Paul", it was easy to imagine that I became a target of hatred and the revenge as a betrayer for people of the Judaism.
In addition, also, it was existence not to know when you were betrayed and, for the Christian, was that it was unbelievable. (cf. apostle record of a person's sayings and deeds nine chapters 19 sections - 22 sections)
Therefore he couldn't but give up the propagation in Jerusalem. But I am really impressed by a marvel of the paradox (idea of the reversal) of God some other time because it leads to the expanse that is Christian global (the countries of the Mediterranean Sea coast ruled by the Roman Empire) adversely. The thought that might not have the propagation to Japan of Francisco XavierSaint spreads if I think that there was not the propagation of Paul. In addition, there seemed to be the existence of this school, too.
I think that I want enthusiasm for propagation that Paul always had. Though it was an innocent person, with more enthusiasm, it is suffered for us and cannot help praying for Christ that I hang over the cross and am dead and was revived after 3rd when I want to tell.
Only Christianity tells you, we know that a life of Christ is "a life for love to others" "to revive across death, and to participate in the help with Christ". I understand that it is that oneself suffers to live for others. It is that there is no but "to love each other as I loved it", and to practice (John 13 chapters 34 sections) that Christ told you if it wants to revive like Christ. Therefore Paul tasted many pains to tell the recondite meaning of the help to people. (cf. II Corinth 11 chapters 25 sections - 27 sections)
When I think about Paul, there is new discovery of a lot of every time and thinks that I take power to be able to get well. I want to talk about Paul a little more on the next time.
Principal Michiharu Yamaguchi