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both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed. But tb<» 

 unbelieving Jeius stirred up the Gentiles, and made th«i^ 

 minds evil-affected against the brethren." Chap. 14 : 1, :' 

 At Lystra " there came certain Jews from Antioch and Ice 

 nium, who persuaded the people, and having stoinjsd Paul 

 drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.* 

 Chap. 14 : 19. The same enmity, and from the same quar 

 ter, our apostle experienced in Greece. At Thessalonica, 

 " some of them," the Jews, " believed, and consorted with 

 Paul and Silas ; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude. 

 and of the chief" women not a few. But the Jews which 

 believed not, moved wdth envy, took unto them certain lewd 

 fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and se^ 

 all the city in an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason^ 

 and sought to bring them out to the people." Chap. 17:4,5 

 Their persecutors follow them to Berea : " When the Jeiv5 

 of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was 

 preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stir- 

 red up the people." Chap. 17 : 13. And lastly at Corinth, 

 when Gallio was deputy of Achaia, "the Jews, made insur- 

 rection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to 

 the judgment-seat." I think it does not appear that our 

 apostle was ever set upon by the Gentiles, unless they were 

 first stirred up by the Jews, except in two instances ; in 

 both which the persons who began the assault were imme- 

 diately interested in his expulsion from the place. Once 

 this happened at Philippi, after the cure of the Pythoness : 

 '' When her masters saw that the hope of their gains was 

 gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the 

 market-place, unto the rulers." Chap. 16 : 19. And a sec- 

 ond time at Ephesus, at the instance of Demetrius, a silver- 

 smith, which made silver shrines for Diana ; who called 

 together " workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye 

 know that by this craft we have our wealth. Moi cover ye 

 Bee and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost through- 

 out ail Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away 



