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<h1><span style="font-size: 18pt;" data-mce-mark="1">Renan on Paul</span></h1>
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<h3><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #800080;">Biography</span></strong></span></h3>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span data-mce-mark="1">Ernest Renan (1823-1892) studied at seminary to enter Catholic orders. Then he studied at St. Sulpice to learn philology, including Hebrew. As he studied Hebrew, he began to go deeper into the subject matter. In the end, as his studies progressed, he chose a life not dependent on the church so he could write freely. He became an instructor at Crouzet's school for boys. (See "</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Renan">Renan</a><span data-mce-mark="1">," </span><em>Wikipedia.</em>)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">In 1863, Renan wrote the immensely popular<em> Vie de Jésus</em>, soon translated into <em>T</em><em>he Life of Jesus.</em> He wrote many other books on the history of Christianity, and is regarded as a "literary genius." By 1891, his works affirm "the necessity of piety independent of dogma." (<em>Id.</em>) Late in life, Renan received numerous honours, including being made an administrator of the Collège de France and a grand officer of the Legion of Honour.</span></p>
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<h3><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #800080;">Renan Is Utterly Pro-Paul in relation to James/Jude/Revelation</span></strong></span></h3>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Renan's work <em>St. Paul</em> depicts Paul in a sympathetic light. He nevertheless agrees that the early church attacked Paul in the Epistles of James and Jude as well as Revelation. But Renan describes these anti-Paul writings, veiled though they were, by the early church as the "cries of hatred" "insult," "calumny," and "envy." He calls James the Just and the apostles who were concerned about Paul's possible "apostasy" against Moses the reflection of "shallow minds." (Renan at <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=NN8TAAAAYAAJ&dq=intitle%3ASaint%20intitle%3APaul%20inauthor%3ARenan&pg=PA301#v=onepage&q&f=false">301</a>.) James supposedly obliged Paul to "hypocrisy" to observe the Nazarite vow in Acts 21 to prove Paul was obeying Moses still, forcing Paul to give pledges to the "littleness of mind." <em>Id.. </em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Hence, Renan is underscoring the opposition of the Apostles and James in a negative light, making Paul look good in all these episodes.</span></p>
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<h3><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #800080;">Yet Jesus Must Be Elevated Above Paul</span></strong></span></h3>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Despite Renan's sympathy with Paul in his battle with the early church, Renan believes Jesus still must be regarded as the light for the church at this time. Finally, Jesus's message is beginning to surface above that of Paul. However, Paul is the hidden rock that causes many to splinter from the true faith into unprofitable divisions. Renan does not blame Paul. It is our error in losing emphasis on Jesus.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">It is most interesting how Renan can hold both positions at once. He is extremely pro-Paul but also Jesus centric. He vigorously attacks the anti-Paulinism of the apostles John and bishops James and Jude. He exemplifies that you can be pro-Jesus of the 12 and a lover and respector of Paul at the same time.</span></p>
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<h3><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #800080;">Renan's Work <em>Saint Paul</em></span></strong></span></h3>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span data-mce-mark="1">In </span><em>Saint Paul</em><span data-mce-mark="1"> </span><span data-mce-mark="1">(G.W. Carleton, 1869) or (</span><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=NN8TAAAAYAAJ&dq=Ernest%20Renan%20Saint%20Paul%20G.W.%20Carleton%201869&pg=PA326">1875</a><span data-mce-mark="1">), Renan states in chapter 22:</span></span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span data-mce-mark="1">[</span><strong><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=NN8TAAAAYAAJ&dq=intitle%3ASaint%20intitle%3APaul%20inauthor%3ARenan&pg=PA326#v=onepage&q&f=false">326</a></strong><span data-mce-mark="1">]</span><span data-mce-mark="1"> One man has contributed more than any other to this rapid extension of Christianity. This man has torn off that sort of tight and fearfully dangerous swaddling-clothes in which the child was wrapped from its birth. He has proclaimed that Christianity was not a simple reformed Judaism, but that </span><span data-mce-mark="1">it was a complete religion, existing by itself.</span><span data-mce-mark="1"> To say that this man deserves to occupy a very high rank in history, is to say a very evident thing; but he must not be called a founder. It is vain for </span><strong><em>Paul</em></strong><span data-mce-mark="1"> to talk ; </span><span data-mce-mark="1">He is </span><strong><em>inferior to the other apostles</em></strong><span data-mce-mark="1">. He has not seen Jesus; He has not heard his word. The divine logia and the parables are </span><em><strong>scarcely known to him</strong></em><span data-mce-mark="1">. The </span><span data-mce-mark="1">Christ</span><span data-mce-mark="1"> who gives him personal revelations, </span><span data-mce-mark="1">is </span><strong><em>his own phantom</em></strong><span data-mce-mark="1">, — it is himself he hears,</span><span data-mce-mark="1"> while thinking he hears Jesus</span><span data-mce-mark="1">.</span></span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span data-mce-mark="1">Even as regards the question of outward role, </span>Paul was <strong><em>far from having the importance, during his life, that we attribute</em></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span data-mce-mark="1">[<strong><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=NN8TAAAAYAAJ&dq=intitle%3ASaint%20intitle%3APaul%20inauthor%3ARenan&pg=PA327#v=onepage&q&f=false">327</a></strong><strong>]</strong> </span><span data-mce-mark="1">to him</span><span data-mce-mark="1">. His churches were either slightly substantial, or denied him. The churches of Macedonia and Galatia, which are his own work, possessed little importance in the second and third centuries. The churches of Corinth and Ephesus, which did not belong to him with so exclusive a title, pass over to his enemies, or are not deemed canonically enough established, when only owing their existence to him. After his disappearance from the scene of apostolic struggles we shall find him soon forgotten. His death was probably regarded by his enemies as the death of an agitator. </span><span data-mce-mark="1">The second century </span><strong><em>scarcely speaks of him</em></strong><span data-mce-mark="1">, and apparently endeav</span><span data-mce-mark="1">ors to systematically blot out his memory</span><span data-mce-mark="1">. His epistles are then </span><strong><em>slightly read</em></strong><span data-mce-mark="1">, and only regarded as authority by rather </span><em><strong>a slim group</strong></em><span data-mce-mark="1">.* His partisans themselves greatly weaken his pre</span><span data-mce-mark="1"></span><span data-mce-mark="1">tensions." He leaves no celebrated disciples. Titus, Timothy, and so many others, who, as it were, constituted his court, disappear without renown. The truth is, Paul was personally too energetic to form an original school. He always crushed his disciples. With him they only fill the characters of secretaries, servants, and couriers. Their respect for their master was such that they never dared to teach freely. When Paul was with his band, he alone existed ; all the others were annihilated, or only lived through him. </span><span data-mce-mark="1">In the </span><strong><em>third, fourth, and fifth centuries</em></strong><span data-mce-mark="1">, Paul </span><strong><em>will increase wonderfully</em></strong><span data-mce-mark="1">. He will become the teacher par excellence, — the founder of Chris</span><span data-mce-mark="1"></span><span data-mce-mark="1">tian theology. The true president of those " great Greek Councils, which make Jesus the keystone of a system of metaphysics, is the apostle Paul. But in the middle ages, especially </span><span data-mce-mark="1">in the Occi</span><span data-mce-mark="1"></span><span data-mce-mark="1">dent, his fortune will undergo a strange eclipse. Paul will say scarcely nothing to the heart of the barbarians. Outside of Rome, he will pos</span><span data-mce-mark="1"></span><span data-mce-mark="1">sess </span><em><strong>no legend</strong></em><span data-mce-mark="1">. Latin Christendom will hardly pronounce his name, except after that of his rival.</span><span data-mce-mark="1"> St. Paul, in the middle ages, is, in some degree, lost in the glory of St. Peter. While St. Peter moves the world, and makes every one tremble and obey, — </span><span data-mce-mark="1">the obscure St. Paul plays a secondary part in the great Christian poem </span>which</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span data-mce-mark="1"><span data-mce-mark="1">[</span><strong><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=NN8TAAAAYAAJ&dq=intitle%3ASaint%20intitle%3APaul%20inauthor%3ARenan&pg=PA328#v=onepage&q&f=false">328</a></strong><span data-mce-mark="1">]</span><span data-mce-mark="1"> fills the cathedrals and inspires the popular chants. </span><span data-mce-mark="1">Scarcely any one before the sixteenth century is called by his name. </span><span data-mce-mark="1">He hardly appears in the emblematical monuments. He has </span><strong><em>no devotees</em></strong>; they build him but few churches; they burn no tapers to him. His surroundings — Titus, Tim<span data-mce-mark="1"></span>othy, Phebe, and Lydia, — occupy but little place in the public worship, above all of the Latins. No </span><span data-mce-mark="1"><span data-mce-mark="1">legend to will it. In order to possess a legend, it is necessary to have spoken to the people, to have excited the imagination. </span><span data-mce-mark="1">Now, what does </span><strong><em>salvation through faith</em></strong>, justification through the blood of Christ, say to the people? There was too little sympathy between Paul and the popu<span data-mce-mark="1"></span><span data-mce-mark="1">lar conscience</span><span data-mce-mark="1">, and probably he was also too well known to history, in order that an aureola of fables should have formed itself around his head. Talk to me of Peter, who bends the heads of kings, shatters empires, walks upon the asp and the basilisk, treads under foot the lion and the dragon, and holds the keys of heaven!</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span data-mce-mark="1">The </span><strong><em>Reformation</em></strong><span data-mce-mark="1"> opens for St. Paul a </span><strong>new era of glory and authority</strong><span data-mce-mark="1">. </span><span data-mce-mark="1">Catholicism itself, through more extended studies than those of the middle ages, is led back to quite just views con</span><span data-mce-mark="1"></span><span data-mce-mark="1">cerning the apostle of the Gentiles. </span><span data-mce-mark="1">Dating from the sixteenth century, the</span><strong><em> name of Paul is omnipresent</em></strong><span data-mce-mark="1">. But the Reformation, which rendered so much service to science and reason, was not able to create a legend. </span><span data-mce-mark="1">Rome, throwing a pleasing veil over the rudeness of the Epistle to the Galatians, elevates Paul upon a pedestal almost equal to that of Peter. Paul does not therefore become to any great extent the saint of the people</span><span data-mce-mark="1">. What place shall criticism assign him? To what rank shall it elevate him in the hierarchy of those who served the ideal?</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span data-mce-mark="1">We serve the ideal by doing good, discovering the truth, and realizing the beautiful. At the head of the holy procession of humanity, walks the good man, the virtuous man; the second rank belongs to the searcher after truth, the scientific man, the philosopher: then comes the man of the beauti</span><span data-mce-mark="1"></span><span data-mce-mark="1">ful, the artist,</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span data-mce-mark="1">[</span><strong><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=NN8TAAAAYAAJ&dq=intitle%3ASaint%20intitle%3APaul%20inauthor%3ARenan&pg=PA329#v=onepage&q&f=false">329</a></strong><span data-mce-mark="1">] </span><span data-mce-mark="1">the poet. </span><strong><em>Jesus</em></strong><span data-mce-mark="1"> appears to us under his celestial aureola, like an </span><em><strong>ideal of goodness</strong></em><span data-mce-mark="1"> and beauty. Peter loved Jesus, understood him ; and was, it appears, in spite of a few weaknesses, an excellent man. </span><span data-mce-mark="1">What was Paul? He was not a </span><span data-mce-mark="1">saint. The dominant feature of</span><strong><em> his character is not goodness</em></strong><span data-mce-mark="1">. He was haughty, pertinacious, aggressive ; he defended himself, maintained his point (as is said in our days); his expressions were harsh; he deemed himself absolutely in the right; he clung to his opinions; he quar<span data-mce-mark="1"></span><span data-mce-mark="1">relled with different persons. He was not learned. It may even be said that he greatly injured science by his paradoxical contempt for reason, by his eulogy upon apparent folly, by his apotheosis of transcendental absurdity. </span><span data-mce-mark="1">Nor was he a poet either. His writings, works of the greatest originality, are without charm. Their form is harsh, and almost always devoid of grace. What was he then? </span><span data-mce-mark="1">He was an eminent man of action; of powerful soul, progressive, enthusias</span><span data-mce-mark="1"></span><span data-mce-mark="1">tic; a conqueror, a missionary, a propagator; the more ardent, from having at first displayed his fanaticism in an opposite direction</span><span data-mce-mark="1">. Now the man of action, noble as he is when he has a noble design in view, is less near God than he who has lived upon the pure love of the actual, the </span><span data-mce-mark="1">good, or the beautiful. </span><span data-mce-mark="1">By nature the apostle is a little narrow-minded. </span><span data-mce-mark="1">He wishes to succeed, — for this he makes sacrifices. Contact with reality always sullies a little. The first places in the king</span><span data-mce-mark="1"></span>dom of heaven are reserved for those whom a ray of grace has reached ; those who have only wor<span data-mce-mark="1"></span><span data-mce-mark="1">shipped the ideal. The man of action is always a poor artist, for his sole design is not to reflect the splendor of the universe. He could not become a man of learning, for he regulates his opinions according to political utility. He is not even a very virtuous man, for he is never irreproachable, — the foolishness and wickedness of men forcing him to covenant with them. Above all, he is never agreeable. Reserve, the most charming of virtues, is forbidden him. The world favors the bold, — those who help themselves</span><em><strong>. Paul,</strong></em><span data-mce-mark="1"> so great, so upright, is</span><span data-mce-mark="1"> </span><strong><em>obliged to decree to himself the title of </em></strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1"><strong><em>[<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=NN8TAAAAYAAJ&dq=intitle%3ASaint%20intitle%3APaul%20inauthor%3ARenan&pg=PA330#v=onepage&q&f=false">330</a></em><em>] apostle.</em></strong><span data-mce-mark="1"> Our faults render us strong in action, — our good qualities weaken us. All in all, that historical character which bears most anal</span><span data-mce-mark="1"></span><span data-mce-mark="1">ogy to St. Paul, is Luther. In both there is the same violence in language, the same passion, the same energy, the same noble independence, the same </span><span data-mce-mark="1">frantic attachment to a thesis embraced as the absolute truth</span><span data-mce-mark="1">.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span data-mce-mark="1">I persist, therefore, in thinking that the</span><strong><em> part taken by Paul in the creation of Christianity, should be ranked far below that of Jesus</em></strong><span data-mce-mark="1">. According to my opinion, </span><strong><em>Paul</em></strong><span data-mce-mark="1"> should even occupy a position </span><strong><em>beneath Francis d' Assisi </em></strong><span data-mce-mark="1">and the author of the " Imitation," both of whom saw Jesus in close proximity. The Son of God stands alone. To appear for a moment, to reflect a soft and profound refulgence, to die very young, is the life of a God. To struggle, dispute, and conquer, is the life of a man. </span><span data-mce-mark="1">After having been </span><em><strong>for three centuries, thanks to orthodox Protestantism</strong></em><span data-mce-mark="1">, the Christian teacher par excellence,</span><em><strong> Paul sees in our day his reign drawing to a close</strong></em><span data-mce-mark="1">.</span><span data-mce-mark="1"> Jesus, on the contrary, </span><strong><em>lives more than ever</em></strong><span data-mce-mark="1">. It is no longer the Epistle to the Romans, which is the resume of Christianity, — it is the </span><strong><em>Sermon on the Mount</em></strong><span data-mce-mark="1">. </span><span data-mce-mark="1">True Christianity, which will last for</span><span data-mce-mark="1"></span><span data-mce-mark="1">ever,</span><strong><em> comes from the gospels, — not from the epistles of Paul</em></strong><span data-mce-mark="1">. The </span>writings of<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong> Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock</strong></span><span data-mce-mark="1">, — the <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">causes of the principal defects of Christian theology</span></strong>. Paul is the father of the subtle Augustine, of the unfruitful Thomas Aquinas, of the gloomy Calvinist, of the peevish Jansenist, of the fierce theology which damns and predestinates to damnation. Jesus is the father of all those who seek repose for their souls in dreams of the ideal. What makes Chris</span><span data-mce-mark="1"></span><span data-mce-mark="1">tianity live, is the little that we know of the word and person of Jesus. The ideal man, the divine poet, the great artist, alone defy time and revolu</span><span data-mce-mark="1"></span><span data-mce-mark="1">tions.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">They alone are seated at the right hand of God the Father for ever more.</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">O Humanity! thou art just, at times, and certain of thy judgments are good.</span></p>
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<h2><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Renan's Other Critical References</span></h2>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Renan elsewhere reviews the history of the early church's veiled attacks on Paul -- through the epistles of Jude, James and Revelation (Apocalypse). He starts off as follows in ch. 10:</span></p>
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<h3><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #800080;">Historical Evidence of A Rupture At Antioch</span></strong></span></h3>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">[<strong><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=NN8TAAAAYAAJ&dq=intitle%3ASaint%20intitle%3APaul%20inauthor%3ARenan&pg=PA186#v=onepage&q&f=false">186</a></strong>] It is very apparent, nevertheless, that the rupture of Antioch left profound traces. The great church on the borders of the Orontes was divided, if I may be allowed to express myself so, into two parishes, — that of the circumcised on one hand, that of the uncircumcised on the other. The separation of these two halves of the church lasted for a long while. Antioch, as is stated at a later period, had <strong><em>two bishops</em></strong>, —<strong><em> one instituted by Peter, the other by Paul</em></strong>. Euodias and Ignatius are designated as having, after the apostles, become these dignitaries.</span></p>
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<h3><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #800080;">Jude's Epistle Is Aimed At Paul</span></strong></span></h3>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">[<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=NN8TAAAAYAAJ&dq=intitle%3ASaint%20intitle%3APaul%20inauthor%3ARenan&pg=PA187#v=onepage&q&f=false"><strong>187</strong></a>] It appears that upon this occasion, new letters were sent from Jerusalem in the name of the apostles. It is even possible that one of these hateful letters has been preserved to us, in the epistle of Jude, — brother of James, and like him, brother of the Lord, — which constitutes a part of the canon. It is one of the most violent <em>facta </em>against <span class="gtxt_body">anonymous adversaries, who are represented as disobedient and ungodly persons. The style of the writing, which much more resembles the classic Greek than that of the greater portion of the New Testament, bears much analogy to that style of the epistle of James. James and Jude probably did not understand Greek. The church of Jerusalem perhaps had Hellenic secretaries for such communications.****</span></span></p>
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<p class="gtxt_body"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">"Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints....Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and greedily after the error of <strong><em>Balaam</em></strong> for reward,<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=NN8TAAAAYAAJ&dq=intitle%3ASaint%20intitle%3APaul%20inauthor%3ARenan&pg=PA388#v=onepage&q&f=false">83</a></sup></span> and perished in the gainsaying of Core." ****</span></p>
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<p class="gtxt_body"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">[<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=NN8TAAAAYAAJ&dq=intitle%3ASaint%20intitle%3APaul%20inauthor%3ARenan&pg=PA188#v=onepage&q&f=false"><strong>188</strong></a>] From this moment, Paul becomes, in the eyes of an entire fragment of the church, a most dangerous heretic, a false Jew,<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=NN8TAAAAYAAJ&dq=intitle%3ASaint%20intitle%3APaul%20inauthor%3ARenan&pg=PA389#v=onepage&q&f=false">85</a></sup></span> a false apostle,<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>86</sup></span> a false prophet,<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>87</sup></span> <strong><em>a second Balaam</em></strong>,"<sup>88</sup> a Jezebel,<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>89</sup></span> a wretch who was harping upon the destruction of the Temple.<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>73</sup></span> To tell all in two words, a Simon the Magician.<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>71</sup></span> Peter was reputed to be everywhere and always occupied in opposing him.<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>73</sup></span> They accustomed themselves to designate the apostle of the Gentiles by the sobriquet of<strong><em> Nicholas</em></strong> (Conqueror of the people), approximative translation of<em><strong>BaUiam</strong></em><em>.'^ </em>The sobriquet took well. A heathen seducer who had visions, although unfaithful,<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>74</sup></span> a man who prevailed upon the people to sin with heathen maidens,<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>75</sup></span> appeared the true type of Paul, — this false visionary, this partisan of mixed marriages.<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>73</sup></span> In the same manner his disciples were called <em>Nicolaitcuies?"<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>1</sup></span> </em>Far from forgetting his <em>role </em>as persecutor, they dwelt upon it in the most odious manner.<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>73</sup></span> His gospel was a false gospel.<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>79</sup></span> It is to Paul that reference is made when the fanatics of the party conversed among themselves in ambiguous language of a per [189] sonage whom they called "the Apostate,"<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>89</sup></span> or "the Hostile Man," <span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>81</sup></span> or " the Impostor," precursor of the Anti-Christ, upon whose trail the chief of the apostles follows in order to repair the evil which he does.<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>81</sup></span> Paul was the "frivolous man" from whom the Gentiles, in their ignorance, received the doctrine inimical to the law.<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>83</sup></span> His visions, which he called " the deep, things of God," they termed " the deep things of Satan."<em><span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>M</sup></span> </em>His churches they called "the synagogues of Satan. <em>"** </em>Through ' hatred to Paul, it was loudly proclaimed that the twelve alone constituted the foundation of the edifice of Christ.<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>88</sup></span></span></p>
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<h3><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #800080;">Paul Envisioned Jesus In An Entirely Metaphysical Manner</span></strong></span></h3>
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<p class="gtxt_body"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">[<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=NN8TAAAAYAAJ&dq=intitle%3ASaint%20intitle%3APaul%20inauthor%3ARenan&pg=PA190#v=onepage&q&f=false">190</a>] It was natural for Paul, who had not seen Jesus, that the entirely human figure of the Galilean master should transform itself into a metaphysical type, much more easily than for Peter, and the others who had conversed with Jesus. Jesus, in Paul's mind, is not a man who has lived and taught: he is the Christ who died for our sins, who saves us, who justifies<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1">131</span> us. He is an <strong><em>entirely divine being</em></strong> ; we partake of him ;<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>192</sup></span> we communicate with him in a wonderful manner.<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>103</sup></span> He is the redemption,<span class="gtxt_body" data-mce-mark="1"> the justification, the wisdom, the righteousness<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>194</sup></span> of man. He is the King of Glory.<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>105</sup></span> All power in heaven and on the earth is soon to be delivered up to him.<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1">138</span> He is only <strong><em>inferior to God the Father</em></strong>.<span class="gstxt_sup" data-mce-mark="1"><sup>107</sup> </span>Had this school alone transmitted us writings, we would not come into contact with the person of Jesus, and we might doubt that he ever existed. But those<em><strong> who knew him, and who kept the recollection of him, wrote, perhaps, already towards this period, the first notes upon which were composed those divine writings (I refer to the Gospels)</strong></em> which made the fortune of Christianity, and transmitted to us the essential traits of the most important character that there ever was to learn.</span></span></p>
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<h3><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #800080;">Revelations (Apocalypse) Chapters Two & Three Are Anti-Paul</span></strong></span></h3>
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