Not Paul But Jesus Author:Jeremy Bentham Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: he may be seen saying—saying in the most positive terms, that he did see the Lord. And if he did see the Lord any where, why not here as well as any where else ?... more » " Saw no man." Yes : so says the English version. But the original is more comprehensive:—Saw no person, says the original: that is, to speak literally, saw no one of the masculine gender. No one what? No one person of this gender: this is what the word means, if it means any thing. No person; and therefore no Lord : no God ; if so it be that, when applied to denote God, the word person means God, or as some say, a part of God. Note, likewise,—that, when the companions are spoken of,—both in the translation and in the original, the object to which the negative is applied is expressed by the same word as when he, Paul, is spoken of-f-. SECTION 3. Vision II.—Ananias'. Topic 1.—Ananias's Description. Of the vision itself there being but one account, by this singleness discordancy is saved. But, of the description belonging to Ananias there are two accounts. One the historical, as before : the other, the unpremeditated oratorical account supposed to be given by Paul in the first of his two supposed speeches, as above ; and, room being thus given for discordancy,—discordancy, as of course, enters—or at any rate a strong suspicion of it. Per Acts, Ananias is a disciple : a disciple, to wita Christian ; a disciple immediately of Jesus or his Apostles: for, such is the signification attached to the word disciple in the Acts: such he would on this occasion be of course understood to be; for, otherwise the word would be uncharacteristic and insignificant. 1st Epistle to the Corinthians xv. 8. t Of the companions it is said fii;Jiva Je Siwptsyre; : of Paul, Materially different is the description supp...« less