Here is Paul, and here is the first time he comes to Corinth. So after these things Paul departed from Athens and came to Corinth and found a certain Jew named Achilla, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy with his wife Achilla, because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome. And they came unto them. Because he was of the same craft, he abode with them and watched, for by their occupation they were tent-makers. And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. When Silas and Promotius were come for Macedonia, Paul was cast in the city and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. When they opposed themselves and blasphemed, He shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own head. So I am true. From henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles. And he departed, then entered into a certain man's house, named Jephthah, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue. And Jephthah, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house, and many of the Corinthians, hearing believed, and were baptized. Then straight the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision. Be not afraid, but seek, and hold not thy peace, for I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee, for I have much people in this city. And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. When Galeo was the deputy of Achaia, The Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat, saying, This fellow prostrate us men to worship God contrary to the law. And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Jalio said unto the Jews, if it were a matter of wrong or wicked looting us, O ye, do, reason would that I should bear with you. If it be a question of words and names and of your law, Look, ye sure, for I will be no judge of such matters. And he prayed them from the judgment-cheek. Then all the Greeks took Sassini, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment-cheek, and gallio, cared for none of these things. Now here's the apostle, and he comes to Corinth. This is his second missionary journey he had free, and he did not touch Corinth on his first, but he did on his second missionary journey. Now, in taking this up, I didn't go over our notes, so we took up, and we were on Acts. I didn't want to recall or repeat anything he said then, so we're fine. You've just watched it. I've got reason, in fact, the last couple of days. But here is the apostle on his second missionary journey. And he gets this Macedonian call over in chapter sixteen to come over into Macedonia, and perhaps, and Corinth was in one part of that province. And although he stopped at Philippi and Thessalonica, of also Burya, and into the province of Achaia, and to Athens, no doubt the very purpose of that Macedonian call. that purpose that God had for the servant was to get into that fruitful field of Corinth. For he says, I have much people in this place. You'll notice that in verse ten. So God gave this Macedonian call undoubtedly that Paul might be led to this wonderful field of Corinth and what a field it was, because God says, I have much people in that city. Our Corinth was already prepared to hear the gospel. I think you find that if you turn over to the Thessalonians, because they were two hundred miles to the north, and when that was taken up on Wednesday night, you saw the influence of that infant church, how they went everywhere. So Paul says, you've covered the area so much, there's no more room in these parts beneath. And so these Thessalonians had sown the good seeds, their converts spread everywhere, even over into this trough. And so here we find they're more or less setting the cross and laying away for what was to follow through the Apostle Paul. And also you notice Paul, when he got to Corinth, undoubtedly very lonely, he finds a young couple. Well, we don't know how young they were, just what the age was, but he finds this couple, Aquila and Priscilla. And they were tent-mixed, and they had just come from Rome, because they'd been driven out by Claudius. You see that in verse two, and he found certain Jew named Aquila born in Porta Pondus, lately come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome, and it came unto them. So you see the Apostle Paul on this occasion. He finds this couple, and because they were ten measures, why, he was perfectly at home. They had the same trade, and some of them think, Bible students think that this couple were saved in Rome. And because they were saved in Rome, the Roman governor sent them out. Throw all Jews out to Rome, and thus they came here to call it. And it was there before the Apostle, when Paul got there, why, he found them, and there he had fellowship and undoubtedly stayed with them for the whole eighteen months that he was in court. And so you find the way the Lord is preparing the way for his servant, the Apostle Paul. You know, Paul's efforts indicate a very definite pattern. You'll find this in Romans chapter one and Romans chapter two, to the Jew first and also to the Greek or the Gentile. God says, I want my word to go to the Jew first and then to the Gentile. And yet here's the apostle. He's the apostle to the Gentile. But he never overlooked that principle. Throughout the act he went to the Jew first. Then to the Gentile. Now you have that pointed out for you in the Acts, if you want to look it up. You'll find he went to the Jews in Cyprus. In chapter thirteen and five, when he went to Cyprus, he went to the Jews first. He went to Antioch. in verse fourteen of chapter thirteen, and there in Antioch he went to the Jews first. Also in Iconium fourteen and one he went to the Jew first. In Thessalonica he went to the Jew as his man of war. He went to the Jew first. And in Berea the same thing. He went to the Jew first. And there here you have a colony of Jews. You notice that in verse four. and he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, persuading the Jews and the Greeks. And when Silas and Timothy were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus was right. Here he is, shangling out the Jews. And how confident must have been when Paul had Timothy and Silas to come along. also to give them companionship. Now here you see him coming to the Jews. What's the result of his coming to the Jews first? Why he got the same treatment as he got elsewhere. Notice verse six. And when they oppose themselves, when anybody rejects the gospel, they're opposing themselves. And these Jews, they were thinking they were opposing Paul, but they were opposing themselves. And so it is in place. They opposed themselves, and blasphemed. He shook his frame with a set unto them. Your blood be upon your own heads, I am clean. But henceforth I go unto the Gentile. And it's very amazing how many times Paul went into a city, and he made for the synagogue. And it was on this time of day he made for the synagogue. He wanted to reach the Jews. He still had a love for them. God served the people, and he tells us over in Romans, I could wish myself a curse from Christ, for my brethren, according to the flesh. Imagine a man having such a love for his nation and his people. He said, I could wish myself a curse from Christ, that my brethren would hear the gospel and be saved. And you see what happened on this occasion? They just resented it. They didn't want the message. So then he said, all right. And also in the last chapter of the act, he did the same thing. Finally, that was his definite final decision. I'm going to Gentiles. You Jews are at your chance. I've been to you in all my journeys as a missionary. I've come to your synagogues. I've pled with you to trust Christ. And you wouldn't do it. Now I turn to the Gentiles. and you can go through all twenty-nine chapters of First Corinthians and Second Corinthians, and you'll not find the word Sabbath in all those chapters because it was a Gentile city. And in the Gentile cities, in these epistles to the Gentiles, there's no reference to the Sabbath day, showing how completely this nation had rejected the gospel and so their eyes had blinded. So we find the Apostle Paul on this occasion, and here he is at this very fruitful place in Corinth. As we pointed out, there's a pattern. As Paul went in, he went to the Jew first. He went to the synagogue. They had their chance. They rejected it. Then he went to the general. This is very solemn because the Jews were fairly privileged people. These Corinthians, they knew nothing about Jewish doctrine or religion. as reported out this morning, the corruption, the vileness, the crippledness of that city. How vile it was! All they had was peace and religion, and their idolatry was foul. They hadn't known anything about Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the true God, but Paul had, and the Jews had. They had all these prophets and these patriarchs, the law, and all the word of God had been given to this nation. So this nation was a favored, favored people. And yet they rejected the gospel when it changed them, and God rejected them. It shows what privilege means. Privilege means responsibility. As I mentioned before, I think of myself, God up as I was in a Christian home, I knew the gospel ever since as long as I can remember. I can remember Mother speaking to me. I remember my Father praying for me. We were taken to Sunday school. We heard the gospel in its simplicity. And of all the fellows I ran with and I went around with a crowd. I didn't know one that knew God's way of salvation. And when I was unsaved, I took someone to a meeting, a gospel meeting in the chapel. And when the preacher would talk about being born again, I would sit there with him. I wonder if he knows what that means. I wonder if she knows what that means, because I knew they didn't know that line. And here I was the most privileged one of all the folks I went to, because I was brought up in the environment of Christianity, a saved mother, a saved father. I knew the gospel. And yet from my knowledge I was the only one saved. I don't know one of my buddies or companions that ever came to Christ. I was the one who should have got the judgment. Because I had seen the light, I had known the truth, and I had existed until I was nineteen years of age. But here you find the grace of God in this state with all that have been lost, and died in my sins, think of what my eternity would have been, to reflect upon my privileges, my opportunities. Power was brought up and trailed in the gospel, and then missed it. So then slight brings responsibility. A light rejected means condemnation. And every time a person hears the gospel, or she hears the gospel, they should examine themselves to see whether they be in the faith or not. This is the truth of God. So here you find the Jews rejecting the gospel, and God says, I turn to the Gentiles. In other words, if you don't want it, someone else does. If you don't want to be saved, God will see someone else who will take it. It's just that simple. God wants you to come to know Christ and to be with him in Rome. And if you don't want someone else, he will accept. God is going to get his quota. It's up to you to ask yourself the question, am I going to accept God's salvation and be saved? Undoubtedly, the apostle Paul, he was much... discouraged and disheartened and alone. When he came to Athens, his reception around the Corinth, his reception in Athens was kind of rough. He had a hard time there. So the enemy was quite discouraged when he came to Corinth. Firstly, practically a stranger, without companions, money or heart, weighed it down with universal godlessness all around them, and impurity and vice. How do you know all that? in his epistle. He uses this language in his epistle. He says, when I came to you, I was with you in weakness, fear, and much friendliness. In first chapter two, three, that's how he entered Corinth. A depressed man he was under pressure, a very lonely man, a man full of fear. Can you imagine the Apostle Paul being full of fear? an awful sense of weakness and much family? Yes, that would be a problem. What was the need and fear of it? Did he realize the challenge that was before him, as this morning we pointed out, this wicked city, this great metropolis, the fourth largest nation in the Roman Empire, the fourth largest city in the Roman Empire, and all the wickedness, the culture and the philosophy there, Was he afraid of the challenge? He felt his weakness. And thus he tells them how he chained into their midst, full of fear. He came with a sense of awful weakness, and he was as much friendly. But he learned the truth of that text. When I am weak, then am I strong. But you'll notice he encouraged him and Peter Garcia when he began his work. You'll notice verse seven and eight. And he departed thence and entered into the certain man's house named Justice, and that worshipped God whose house joined hard to the synagogue. Well, that was encouraging. And Christmas, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the board with all his house. And many of the Corinthians hearing believed and were baptized. So you see there was quite a bit of encouragement right there in seeing these blessings. Now I want you to notice something that took place, when God encourages or gives blessings. You can always attend on this, and Paul realized it, and God knew it. And that's why you'll notice what God did in verse nine. The encouragement he gave. Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision. He not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy feet. For I am with thee. And no man shall set on thee to hurt thee, for I have much people in this city. So God comes in and encourages his service. Here's the apostle. This tremendous task was before. He knew the dangers involved. The Jews were against. And here there's God, and this is a vision that God gave the apostle Paul. He gave seven, and we'll mention them before we get through. And here's his vision. Who couldn't take courage? Who couldn't get a lift from a vision like this and a message from God? For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt me. I have much people in this world. What a message. From the living point to the Apostle Paul. Now in reference to these visions, the first one the Apostle had, was the one on the Damascus Road, I suppose you know that. Then on the Damascus Road, he was on his way to persecute more Christians. He was a zealous young man, and he was out now to get Christianity. He's going to wipe it out. And while he was on the way, the Lord spoke to him, psalm to the Lord. And you had that over... In Acts twenty-two, six-seven, as he tells it. You can have it in chapter nine also. I'm going to read you this first vision. And it came to pass that as I made my journey and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light drowned about me. And I fell unto the ground and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Paul, why, persecutest thou me? And I answered, Who art thou, Lord, He said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, who now persecutes. The following were pointing out the two sides of the ends of the spectrum. On the one side you have Corinth, one in the vilest city, on the face of the earth at that time. On the other end of the spectrum you have the Apostle Paul, a God-feeling, zealous, educated, sincere good. With all that a listener man could get, his life was up, he says, concerning the law and blameless. And here you have the two extremes. You have the extreme of corruption and violence. On the other hand, you have the other extreme of a man who epitomizes religion, the fear of God. In fact, you're somewhere in between. And the Apostle Paul had to be saved just as much as those wicked, godless, idol-worshipping Corinthians. Here's the Apostle Paul. He's on the clean footpath. You can find that broad way in the Bible in Matthew chapter seven. Broad is the way. But I'm going to tell you that way on which the human race travels, had its colors and shades. You begin. Just a clean footpath. Right over here at one side the path is white. Here we're honest, moral, respectful, men and women. This is where they walk. And then it gets a little darker. Until over the other extreme of the wide broadway, black, sinful, ungodly, wicked, men and women. It's stupid nothing. But they're all on the broadway going down to head. And off from the broad way there is a straight and narrow way, and that's the way of a cross, which means hope. And so from the one end of the spectrum, so wicked, and godly Corinthians, to the other, the apostle Paul, with the light taken to naught. Here's the apostle, and he had to be saved, and God had to knock him down, on the last of the throne. It took this. Paul was so zealous for the tradition of his father. He was out to get anybody who would in any way impinge upon the doctrine of Abraham, Isaac, and break the tradition of his father. And yet the Lord Jesus Christ had a knock on down. And see what he said when the Lord did knock on down. And I tell unto the gentleman, heard a voice saying, unto me, Saul, Saul, why persist is this thou me? He was persecuting Christ when he was persecuting the Lord's people. And I answered, Who asked our Lord? And he said unto me, What a revelation. I am Jesus of Nazareth, who now persecutes. He never saw that before. The one I've been fighting against, with a glory-pride man in heaven, on poor great palace, this mighty citadel of all good work, and ponds, and ceremonies, and liturgy. His good life and everything come at the feet of the crucified, glorified Lord, and the saved. And saying that for Jesus, if indeed on the three-foot path on the one side of the black edge on the other side, all on the trees, from forty ponds to the righteous cause, they had to be saved. So did he. I don't know where you stand. The summer in the teens, you are. And God says there's only salvation for you in the Lord Jesus Christ. This was the first vision relative to the Apostle Paul. Then the second one you have. The second one in chapter twenty-seven and seventeen. Here there's anything to pass that when I was come again to Jerusalem, Even while I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance, and saw him, the same one, saying unto me, Make haste, and get me quickly out of Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me. These are the Jews again. They are after his scouts, right in Jerusalem, the heart of Julian. And so you find... Paul. Giving Paul another vision. Jesus Paul, get up. They've rejected you. They've rejected me. This was their second vision. Then you have the third vision. What a vision that was. And you have this in Second Corinthians, Prayer, one fourth. It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to vision. I am revelation to the Lord. I knew a man in Christ about fourteen years ago, whether in the body I cannot tell, or whether out of the body I cannot tell, God knows, such a one caught up to the third heaven. Who was this man, the Apostle Paul? Undoubtedly, it was when he was stoned in chapter four, at fourteen. They thought he was dead, and they drug him out of the chitin. Tickety was dead, but after a while, they stood and watched him, and he stood up. Many believe it was that time when he had this spirit, when he lived his spirit and was caught into the presence of God, he had this wonderful vision, how that he was caught up in satanity and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. There's his third vision. The fourth one is in chapter sixteen and verse nine and ten. This is the Macedonian fall. A vision appeared to Paul in the night said to the man of Macedonia, and paid him, saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us. And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly daring that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them that is in Macedonia. Then came the fifth vision, in chapter twenty-three and verse eleven. Here he is before the council, the Jews again after him. And the night following the Lord stood by him and said, Dear good here, Paul, but as they have testified, as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness unto me at Rome. Then you have the third vision. It's in chapter twenty-seven, twenty-three and four on board ships. For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve, saying, Hear not all, for thou must be brought before Sheba, and God hath given ye all that say listen. Then you come to the final vision that he had, and it's the one in our chapter, chapter eighteen, nine, and ten, and we read it before, I read it again. Then speak the Lord to Paul and Knight. By vision, be not afraid and speak. I am told not thy feast, for I am with thee. No man shall set a me thee, for I much people in this place. Now I have all these seven visions. I was before I take the meeting. I tried to line them up so they'd be easy to remember. The first one you have, Paul's deliverance. from sin and from hell on the Damascus Road. Now, God's not speaking in visions today. I don't know who the young fellow was. He saved the door for half an hour before I left. He wanted me to buy some kind of a button with two American flags. I said, who are you associators? Well, he says, we're like the campus crusades. But I said, do you believe what they believe? Do you believe in the fundamentals? Well, yeah. I said, do you believe in tongue? Well, yeah. He said, I speak in the tongue now. I said, you know what you're speaking. So do I, but you can say things I don't understand. He tried to babble. I said, what do you think about him? No, yeah, we believe in miracles. I said, I'm not interested. In other words, people are coming around today and they're trying their very best. hander off what they believe. And unless you're kept, there's a good possibility your library gets taken in. And this isn't a vision. Paul got these seven visions. But God never intended that everybody get vision. There was no Bible in those days. That is a New Testament. And in those days, here's the apostle. He's a chosen disciple unto the Gentile. And he had to be a supernatural man. Perhaps we notice this morning it was just a little man. Perhaps. Arms blind. And yet here there's God taking hold of this little crooked leg Jew. The deep shed eyes and the hooked nose. He said he's formerly peasants with hate in a street contempt. And here is God, here is the Apostle Paul, attacking that mighty citizen of Corinth with all its learning. And God lays hold of this little man. No wonder he needed these visions. How they supported us. But friend, you've got the whole little testimony. You don't need this. I can eat too much fat or something like that and get a little more of these dreams than I. Don't go by a vision. You reach something that don't agree with, and you'll get a vision or a dream. We can't go by vision. We've got the Word of God to go by. Now the Apostle was singalunk of the children's vessel by God unto the church, unto the Gentiles. And he writes fourteen out of the twenty-seven books of the New Testament. I think he's the greatest man in the Bible outside the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe he's even greater than David, child of Abraham, and Moses. Here's the appointment. This little man, look what it is, and look at what Christ he paid. No man suffered like. But he had all kinds of revelations, and for fear left keep glory in his revelations. God gave them a thorn in the flesh. He allowed the devil to give them a thorn in the flesh, lest he be exalted above nothing. Think of what this man went through through all these wonderful experiences. And even though he had these brilliant experiences, these mighty revelations and these visions, looking into the very presence of God and seeing and hearing things, it's not wonderful for a man to see and hear. He didn't know whether he was in the body or where he was. He just was there. And lest he glory in that and brag about it, God says, I'll let Satan bust of you to keep you from bragging over what you've seen and heard. God is afraid of a threat in your people and in your church. And so Paul couldn't even glory in these days. Rest thy glory above men. But God gave him these visions because he was God's chosen death. They get the church stuff. And here is the one who went, and he established his churches. Everyone! And you see, the power of the gospel, there are any established churches right in the dark shadows of Corinth, a chamber. He's a power of gospel through this little man, the Apostle Paul. Then you have also the other... The second one, after the first vision is salvation, deliverance from sin and hell from vision of the living Christ. The defense fell his conversion. And God said, you depart from Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony. Here's the Lord looking on his surface. Paul is pleading with those people to receive the gospel. In Jerusalem, he had such a love for Jerusalem. He said, I'm willing to die in Jerusalem. He's willing to die when His Lord dies. God says, Paul, you get out of here. He won't receive your testimony. You get out of this room. So here's another remark from a vision the Apostle Paul had of God's care, his watchfulness over his beloved servant. And then the third one, because he discovered the glories of heaven, you notice that. in the second fifth, in fourteen, twelve and five, one and five. Then you have the direction for his service to come over into Macedonia and have God is given him direction to their vision. And often, though the Lord people today, they'll ask the Lord, now give me a sign, give me some kind of a vision, so and so and so and so, then I'll know. The Lord doesn't ever go contrary to his book. This is what we've got to go by today in our visions and dreams and revelations. God has given us his word. He tells us what happened to the Apostle. The Apostle Paul makes it very plain that we are to look to the book for our direction and guidance in our faith and in ourselves. Then you have Paul and his deliverance from a trap of the set for him. over in the council in chapter twenty three eleven. And the night following the Lord stood by him and said, Dear good cheer, Paul, that as thou art justified, amir in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome. Here you find another revelation. What a revelation it was. Paul, they don't want you, and in rejecting you, they reject me. And go to Jesus' church. He needed encouragement, quite often. And now on the sea, here he is, and he's sailing toward Rome. On that ship, there were two hundred and some men, sailing, two, and an awful storm came upon, dropping, dropping. And this storm, it was so bad, they all gave up hope that they were being rested. And it had been fourteen days going through this storm. They ran out of food. But it was that same little man. And there he was. And Paul gave him this encouragement. And I thought, quote, come on in, could I use a better word than delight? What happened here? Here he is, Galerian. Why? The Lord says, Paul, I'm going to save everybody. on board ship. You're not going to a watery grave. I'm going to preserve it. I'm delivering you from this storm, and he said, I've given you all them to share with you. My, that was a raft of souls, wasn't it? All those on board ships were going to be saved. They'd have all likely gone to the bottom if it hadn't been for a little Jew on board that vessel. I think it's wonderful to listen to those words, for there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I served. How on look? Say, dear not Paul, for those must be brought before Caesar, and God has given thee all that sailed. After fourteen days, going through the terrible storm, Pyrrhic Leiban, and so who? Night all the day. No light at all, just fourteen days of nothing but night, with delicate and dark clouds and the angry season, no food on board here, not a ray of light anywhere, and then addition. The Lord appears to be, Paul, one in person. Do not compare it. I'm going to see, Stuart, that that boat gets to its land. even though it broke up on the shore. No one lost their lives. And all of those, all are saved to eat. That's what he cursed. Then the last schism here is defended by the Roman government while in Rome. I think this is remarkable when you think of what happened on this occasion. Have this been verses nine and ten and on? verses twelve and eighteen. And when Galileo was deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and dropped into the judgment seat, saying, This fellow persuaded men to worship God contrary to the law. And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Galileo said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked looteness, O ye Jews, reason what that I should bear with you. But if it be a question of words and of names and of your law, Look, ye, to it, for I will not be judged of such matters. But he paid them from the judgment seat. Then all the Greeks took Sassini, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and feasted him before the judgment seat, and Jalio cared for none of these things. You know, it's not that Jalio, the Roman judge, not that he, what is in Christianity, or anything Paul has to say. He hated high poverty. He was over that colony of Jews. And here they were trying to get rid of the Apostle Paul. And the Romans did have a sense of justice. In other words, we would say today they believed in the freedom of the Muslims. Not like a ecclesiastical Rome when they came so far in the dark century. Here in Imperial Rome they believed in a man having freedom. And he saw this man, Galileo, he saw through these things. He was fair enough to see that their child had grown up. He said, now, if you think I'm going to be a judge of you, Jews, about your custom and your law, he says, I love nothing to do with it. And he said, well, now, in other words, it simply meant this. Paul from then on had protection from the government to carry on his word in court. and the Jews were defeated. Goliath said, I have nothing of it. You don't have a case. This man has not broken any Roman law. Some law of yours are your custom, and I'll not prosecute him for that. And here is God coming, the Apostle Paul defense, and he has the government behind. Without Goliath, all those Corinthians need some down there. And of course, in other places, I'm going to protect him now. How wonderful all these visions were to the Apostle Paul, and the same God blessed him, can bless up. Just in closing, I want you to notice what happened. Look at Christmas in verse eight. And Christmas, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord, were all at house, and many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed, and were baptized. So Christmas, he got saved. And then you'll notice also Sosthenes replaced this man because this man, Christmas, he got, when he got paid, he was no longer in charge of the people of the temple or the synagogue, but this man, Sosthenes, took his place. And so what do you read in connection with Sosthenes? It says in verse...