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1817 Sept. 18 Not Paul Argument
1817 Sept. 18

Not Paul

Argument Miracles &c

Ch Paul’s Visions

1 [… ?] Damascene conversion

2 at Troas [… ?]

Chap. /Genus/ I. Paul’s Visions as reported in the Acts.

I. Paul’s vision experienced in the road between Jerusalem and Damascus (about 120 miles) on the occasion on which he was converted. See above Ch. | | the Chapter on Paul’s conversion. Seen /Person seen/ nobody: but by Paul a vision heard, which by the said Paul /him/, he having never either seen or heard Jesus, was by some means not specified discovered to be Jesus. Places in which /Persons by whom/ this is reported: 1. Paul speaking to the Jerusalem Mob. Acts XXII. 2. Paul speaking to King Agrippa Acts XXVI[?]. 3. Paul writing to the Galatians: Gal. I. 12. 15. 16 4. Paul writing to the Corinthians. I. Cor. XV. 8. 5 Author of the Acts Acts IX 3 to 9

Though an unseen one /sight/ this vision was a direct /directly stated/ one.

II. Another vision of Paul’s experienced /enjoyed/ Paul’s vision at a place not mentioned and at a time not discoverable. Paul’s vision of /Person seen/ Ananias as reported to Ananias time and place also unspecified by Jesus to the said Ananias. a See above Ch. | | This is the vision within a vision, as there spoken of. This vision is also a direct /directly-stated/ one. Pencil notes: ‘To the next page’; ‘From the bottom of the next page’.

a Acts IX. 12.

IV. Paul’s vision at Troas. Person seen a man of Macedonia, name not mentioned. Person by whom reported, the author of the Acts. Acts XVI. 8. 9. 10

8. ‘And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas. 9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.

10. And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia &c

Vision in this case too a directly-stated one.

Of this vision the natural interpretation seems to have been this. For reasons which he had not thought fit to explain to his attendants, or which having been explained to them had not proved quite so satisfactory as he could have wished, Paul chose to take this voyage to Macedonia. He accordingly determined to have had this vision. At this time /On this occasion/ he was so seldom alone, that it became necessary to experience it - to have experienced it either in a trance, or at night. In a trance there would have been the trouble of acting the part, and all eyes would be upon him: the night time was therefore chosen, by which /his choice, and by it/ all that trouble was saved.
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    Ch Paul’s Visions

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    VII. Vision of Paul at night at Jerusalem in the castle. Probable /Apparent/ object or purpose the keeping up the spirits of his adherents on the occasion on which the probability was seen by him of his being sent in the state of prisoner for trial to Rome /as he accordingly was not long afterwards he accordingly was to Rome/. Person seen, the Lord i.e. Jesus. Seer /Percipient witness/, Paul alone. Person reporting /Reporting witness/, the author of the Acts. Acts XXIII. 10, 11.

    Vision a directly-stated one.

    10. ‘And when there arose a great diffusion, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them (the Jerusalem mob) and to bring him into the castle.

    11. And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.’

    On this occasion his state being that of confinement in a prison, none of his adherents in his company /his adherents all of them at a distance/ /the faculty[?] of/ vision found itself at perfect liberty - no need of any preparatory trance.
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    §. 2. Revelation ambiguous[?]

     This under Ch Visions. §. indirectly stated[?] or under Paul’s title or Paul’s Visit 3 d to Jerusalem?

    Under another hand /a succeeding hand/ we shall find him in an Epistle /a letter/ of his to the disciples in Galatia declaring positively and in the most pointed terms that the Gospel which he preached was received by him not of men but of /by/ revelation: by the revelation of Jesus Christ. […?] then if so, at

    After or before the occasion on which this speech was /is represented as being/ spoken but according to his account as given in his Epistle to the Galatians at least seventeen years at the least after the time mentioned by him as the time of this /such/ his conversion he scruples not to assure /inform/ these same Galatians that neither from nor after man received the Gospel he preached was neither ‘ received by him of man’ nor otherwise taught to him than ‘by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

    §. 2 or 3. Revelation pretended to by Paul - inconsistency of the pretension with his own accounts.

    This revelation at what time on what occasion /conjuncture/ at what time was it made? and what did it amount to? { Put last what follows?} In his speech to the Jerusalem mob which was spoken almost at the close of his adventures /made on his fourth visit, being a visit subsequent to this which is spoken of in this part of his Epistle to the Galatians/ as reported by the author of the Acts, no trace of /not the slightest mention of/ any such revelation is to be found. On the road to Damascus, instead of giving him any such information what the voice gives him is - a put-off, referring him for it to Ananias. When he sees Ananias, Ananias tells him indeed that he have been chosen by God to see the Just One and that he is to be the Just One’s witness unto all men’, but tells him not what his evidence is to consist of. According to this same speech, at another time indeed viz. when being at Jerusalem in the temple, and praying and in a trance if by the Just One is /he means/ the Lord, so it is that he does see that same Just One but except that the sooner he can get out of Jerusalem no more does he on this occasion learn from the Just One than he had learnt before.
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    1817 Oct. 25

    Ch. Miracles Quasi, Visions

    1. Miraculous account false

    III or Verbal or else Miracles

    17 Acts XXVII. 22. 25. Copy these four verses (Comforting Angel on shipboard.

    II. Inferential quasi miracles Acts XXVII. 34. Wherefore pray you &c not a hair shall fall &c

    IV. Miracles unparticularized continued

    6 Acts XIX. 6. 7. And when Paul had laid (his) hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues and prophecied. (v. 7) And all the men were about twelve.

    6. Acts XIX. 11. 12. And God wrought special miracles by the hand of Paul: so that from his body &c. Copy the verse.

    Miraculous accounts false

    16. Acts XXII 17 to 21.

    Trance in Jerusalem temple Copy v. 17 to 21

    14. Acts XVIII 9. 10. Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision. Be not afraid &c. Copy 9 and 10.

    15. Acts XIX 13 to 20. Exorcists bedeviled. Magic books burnt by the owners. Copy verses 13 to 20.

    III continued. Quasi Miracles inferential

    17. Acts XX. 23. Save that the holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying &c.

    16. Acts XX 22. And now behold I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem.

    15. Acts XIX 21. Paul purposed in the Spirit … to go to Jerusalem. Copy the Verse.

    14. Acts XIX. 6. 7. And when Paul had laid (his) hands upon them, the Holy Ghost come on them, and they spake with tongues and prophecied. And all the men were about twelve.

    13. Acts XVIII. 5. Paul was ‘pressed in Spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.’

    12. Acts XVI. 26. to 34. ‘And suddenly there was a great earthquake &c. (Paul and Silas liberated.)

    11. Acts XVI. 7. ‘They’ (Paul and Timotheus assayed to go to Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not

    10 Acts XVI. 6 They (Paul and Timotheus were forbidden by the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia.’

    9. Acts XII. 23. And immediately the Angel of the Lord smote him (Herod) &c. Copy the verses

    Miraculous accounts false

    5. Paul’s Vision Acts IX 1 to 9.

    6. Ananias’s Vision Acts IX. 10 to 16.

    7. Paul’s vision as reported by the Lord to Ananias in his vision Acts IX. 12.

    8. Scales that fell from Paul’s eyes Acts IX. 18. ‘And immediately &c. Copy the verse.

    9. Tabitha resuscitated by Peter Acts IX. 36. to 42.

    10. Peter’s Vision at Joppa Acts X. 9 to 16. XI. 4. to 10.

    11. Lystra Cripple cured by Paul Acts XIV. 8. 9. 10.

    12. Acts XVI. 9. 10. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night Copy verses 9 and 10.

    13. Acts XVI. 18. Paul being grieved turned and said to the Spirit (of divination v. 16) I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out of her the same hour.

    6. At Lydda paralytic Æneas cured by Peter IX. 34. 35.

    7. Cornelius’s Vision at Cæsarea Acts X. 3 to 7. XI. 13.

    8. Acts X. 19. 20. While Peter thought on the vision, the spirit said to him &c.

    3. Acts VIII. 26. And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip saying &c. Copy the verse.

    4. Acts VIII. 29. ‘Then the Spirit said to Philip, Go near’ &c

    5. Acts VIII. 39 … the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip that the Eunuch saw him no more … 40 But Philip was found at Azotus.

    6. Acts XI 12. ‘And the Spirit bade me (Peter) ‘go with them nothing doubting.’

    7. Acts XI. 28 … Agabus … signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth &c.

    8. Acts XII. 7. 8. 9. The Angel of the Lord came upon him (Peter) and &c. Copy the verses.

    Quasi Miracles inferential /[…?]/ Acts XXVIII. Copy from 3 to 6. And when Paul &c.

    Quasi Miracles verbal

    Acts XXVIII Copy from 7 to 10. Publius’s father cured or doctored: also others nameless

    8. [Greek] 9. [Greek]

    1. Miraculous account false

    2 Peter’s resuscitation of Tabitha

    Acts IX 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41.

    3.[?] Peter and John’s cure of the temple cripple Acts III 1 to 11. IV. 9. 13. 14. 22.

    4. Stephen’s vision Acts VII 55.

    II. Quasi Miraculous accounts: quasi miracles inferential or by inference

    1. Cloven tongues Acts II 1 to 13: or […?]

    2. Paralytic Æneas cured by Peter Acts IX. 33. 34.

    3. Acts IV 31. the place was shaken where they (the Apostles) were assembled together; and they were all filled with the holy Ghost &c

    4. Ananias and Sapphira’s death Acts V. 1 to 11

    5. v. 15. ‘They brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches that at the least, the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.’

    6. Acts XX 7 to 12 Eutychus raised up. Copy v. 7 to 12.

    III. Quasi-Miraculous accounts or Quasi Miracles made by double entendre: alias verbal miracles

    I Acts V. 19. The angel of the Lord by night opened the prison-doors, and brought them forth.

    2. Acts VI. 15. And all that sat in the Council looking stedfastly at him (Stephen) saw his face as if it had been the face of an Angel.

    IV. Miracles unparticularized

    1. Acts II 43 ‘Many wonders and signs were done by the Apostles.

    2. Acts V. 12. And by the hand of the Apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people.

    3. Acts VIII. 6. 7. 13. Philip’s

    4. Simon Magus’s Acts VIII 10. 11.

    5. Acts XV. 12 ‘Then all the multitude … gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.’