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The simple notice of the meeting is more touching than many words would have been. It brings out again the Apostle's somewhat depressed state, partly due, no doubt, to nervous tension during the long and hazardous voyage, and partly to his consciousness that the decisive moment was very near.
And in all this the hand of the Pope was seen, sending to the chief bishop of Spain the pallium direct from the body of St. Peter, on which it had been laid, as the visible symbol of apostolic power dwelling in the Apostle's See, and radiating from it.
To allow Marjorie to irrevocably link her fate with the Apostle's, without being first of all made aware that he was, to all intents and purposes, a haunted man that was not to be thought of. 'You employ large phrases. My words cooled the other's heated blood. Once more his eyes were cast down, his hands crossed upon his breast 'I crave my lord's pardon. My wound is ever new.
And when the fiend finds a man idle, he puts in his heart foul thoughts of fleshly filth, and other follies that may bring him to sin; afterwards, he eggs him on to do them indeed, and thus he does against the Apostle's bidding: "Will not to give place to the devil." The idle man makes himself unworthy to dwell in any place but hell.
It was the apostle's love of absolute sincerity, and, especially, it was his bitter hatred of all the remaining dregs of insincerity that he from time to time detected in his own heart, it was this that gave him his good conscience before a God of pity and compassion, truth and grace.
Of a truth I am but an orphaned maid; my lover and my guardian are both dead; and yet do I not fear to depart for a land beyond seas; true and faithful love is the guiding-star which shall lead us, and we have seen in Ann how true is the Apostle's saying that love conquereth all things.
The mellow note of an apostle's bell the gift of an aesthetic parishioner came from below, and she said, "Well, there's breakfast, David," and went before him down the stairs. He brought his papers with him.
When, in 500, he visited Rome, he was received before its gates by the senate, the clergy, the people, and welcomed like an emperor of the olden time. Arian as he was, he prayed in St. Peter's, like the orthodox emperors of the line of Theodosius, at the Apostle's tomb. Before the senate-house, in the forum, Boethius greeted him with a speech.
Luke, for instance, always calls him Simon up to the same point as Mark, except once where he uses the form 'Simon Peter, and thereafter always Peter, except in Christ's solemn warning, 'Simon, Simon, Satan hath desired to have you, and in the report of the tidings that met the disciples on their return from Emmaus, 'The Lord hath appeared to Simon. So Matthew calls him Simon in the story of the first miraculous draught of fishes, and in the catalogue of Apostles, and afterwards uniformly Peter, except in Christ's answer to the apostle's great confession, where He names him 'Simon Bar Jona, in order, as would appear, to bring into more solemn relief the significance of the immediately following words, 'Thou art Peter. In John's Gospel, again, we find the two forms 'Simon Peter' and the simple 'Peter' used throughout with almost equal frequency, while 'Simon' is only employed at the very beginning, and in the heart-piercing triple question at the end, 'Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou Me?
At Ptolemais, as at Tyre, there was a little company of disciples, the brevity of the stay with whom, contrasted with the long halt in Caesarea, rather favours the supposition that the ship's convenience ruled the Apostle's movements till he reached the latter place.
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