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130:8.1 The first stop on the way to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy Italy] was at the island of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta Malta]. Here [[Jesus]] had a long [[talk]] with a downhearted and discouraged young man named Claudus. This fellow had contemplated [[Suicide|taking his life]], but when he had finished talking with the [[scribe]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus Damascus], he said: " I will face life like a man; I am through [[playing]] the coward. I will go back to my people and begin all over again. " Shortly he became an enthusiastic preacher of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynics Cynics], and still later on he joined hands with [[Peter, the Apostle|Peter]] in proclaiming [[Christianity]] in [[Rome]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples Naples], and after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter#Martyrdom death of Peter] he went on to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain Spain] preaching the [[gospel]]. But he never knew that the man who [[inspired]] him in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta Malta] was the [[Jesus]] whom he subsequently [[proclaimed]] the world's Deliverer.

130:8.1 The first stop on the way to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy Italy] was at the island of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta Malta]. Here [[Jesus]] had a long [[talk]] with a downhearted and discouraged young man named Claudus. This fellow had contemplated [[Suicide|taking his life]], but when he had finished talking with the [[scribe]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus Damascus], he said: " I will face life like a man; I am through [[playing]] the coward. I will go back to my people and begin all over again. " Shortly he became an enthusiastic preacher of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynics Cynics], and still later on he joined hands with [[Peter, the Apostle|Peter]] in proclaiming [[Christianity]] in [[Rome]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples Naples], and after the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter#Martyrdom death of Peter] he went on to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain Spain] preaching the [[gospel]]. But he never knew that the man who [[inspired]] him in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta Malta] was the [[Jesus]] whom he subsequently [[proclaimed]] the world's Deliverer.

130:8.2 At [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse,_Sicily Syracuse] they spent a full week. The notable [[event]] of their stop here was the rehabilitation of Ezra, the backslidden [[Jew]], who kept the tavern where [[Jesus]] and his companions stopped. Ezra was [[charmed]] by [[Jesus]]' approach and asked him to help him come back to the [[faith]] of [[Israel]]. He [[expressed]] his hopelessness by saying, " I want to be a true son of [[Abraham]], but I cannot find [[God]]. " Said Jesus: " If you truly want to find God, that [[desire]] is in itself [[evidence]] that you have already found him. Your trouble is not that you cannot find [[God]], for [[the Father]] has already found you; your [[trouble]] is simply that you do not know [[God]]. Have you not read in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah Prophet Jeremiah], `You shall seek me and find me when you shall search for me with all your heart'?[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Jeremiah#Chapter_.29] And again, does not this same prophet say: `And I will give you a heart to know me, that I am the Lord, and you shall belong to my people, and I will be your God'?[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Jeremiah#Chapter_.24] And have you not also read in the [[Scriptures]] where it says: `He looks down upon men, and if any will say: I have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not, then will God deliver that man's soul from darkness, and he shall see the light'? "[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Job#Chapter_.33] And Ezra found [[God]] and to the [[satisfaction]] of his [[soul]]. Later, this [[Jew]], in [[association]] with a well-to-do [[Greek]] [[proselyte]], built the first Christian church in Syracuse.

130:8.2 At [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse,_Sicily Syracuse] they spent a full week. The notable [[event]] of their stop here was the rehabilitation of Ezra, the backslidden [[Jew]], who kept the tavern where [[Jesus]] and his companions stopped. Ezra was [[charmed]] by [[Jesus]]' approach and asked him to help him come back to the [[faith]] of [[Israel]]. He [[expressed]] his hopelessness by saying, " I want to be a true son of [[Abraham]], but I cannot find [[God]]. " Said Jesus: " If you truly want to find God, that [[desire]] is in itself [[evidence]] that you have already found him. Your trouble is not that you cannot find [[God]], for [[the Father]] has already found you; your [[trouble]] is simply that you do not know [[God]]. Have you not read in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah Prophet Jeremiah], `You shall seek me and find me when you shall search for me with all your heart'?[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Jeremiah#Chapter_.29] And again, does not this same prophet say: `And I will give you a heart to know me, that I am the Lord, and you shall belong to my people, and I will be your God'?[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Jeremiah#Chapter_.24] And have you not also read in the [[Scriptures]] where it says: `He looks down upon men, and if any will say: I have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not, then will God deliver that man's soul from darkness, and he shall see the light'? "[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Job#Chapter_.33] And Ezra found [[God]] and to the [[satisfaction]] of his [[soul]]. Later, this [[Jew]], in [[association]] with a well-to-do [[Greek]] [[proselyte]], built the first Christian church in Syracuse.

130:8.3 At [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messina Messina] they stopped for only one day, but that was long enough to [[change]] the life of a small boy, a fruit vendor, of whom [[Jesus]] bought fruit and in turn fed with the bread of life. The lad never forgot the [[words]] of [[Jesus]] and the kindly look which went with them when, placing his hand on the boy's shoulder, he said: " [[Farewell]], my lad, be of good [[courage]] as you grow up to manhood and after you have fed the [[body]] learn how also to feed the [[soul]]. And [[Universal Father|my Father in heaven]] will be with you and go before you. " The lad became a [[devotee]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism Mithraic religion] and later on turned to the [[Christian]] [[faith]].

130:8.3 At [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messina Messina] they stopped for only one day, but that was long enough to [[change]] the life of a small boy, a fruit vendor, of whom [[Jesus]] bought fruit and in turn fed with the bread of life. The lad never forgot the [[words]] of [[Jesus]] and the kindly look which went with them when, placing his hand on the boy's shoulder, he said: " [[Farewell]], my lad, be of good [[courage]] as you grow up to manhood and after you have fed the [[body]] learn how also to feed the [[soul]]. And [[Universal Father|my Father in heaven]] will be with you and go before you. " The lad became a [[devotee]] of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism Mithraic religion] and later on turned to the [[Christian]] [[faith]].

130:8.4 At last they reached [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples Naples] and felt they were not far from their destination, [[Rome]]. Gonod had much [[business]] to [[transact]] in Naples, and aside from the time [[Jesus]] was required as [[interpreter]], he and Ganid spent their [[leisure]] visiting and exploring the [[city]]. Ganid was becoming adept at sighting those who appeared to be in need. They found much [[poverty]] in this city and distributed many [[alms]]. But Ganid never [[understood]] the [[meaning]] of [[Jesus]]' [[words]] when, after he had given a coin to a street beggar, he refused to pause and speak comfortingly to the man. Said Jesus: " Why waste [[words]] upon one who cannot [[perceive]] the [[meaning]] of what you say? The [[spirit]] of [[the Father]] cannot teach and save one who has no [[capacity]] for sonship. " What Jesus meant was that the man was not of [[normal]] [[mind]]; that he lacked the [[ability]] to [[respond]] to [[spirit]] [[leading]].

130:8.4 At last they reached [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples Naples] and felt they were not far from their destination, [[Rome]]. Gonod had much [[business]] to [[transact]] in Naples, and aside from the time [[Jesus]] was required as [[interpreter]], he and Ganid spent their [[leisure]] visiting and exploring the [[city]]. Ganid was becoming adept at sighting those who appeared to be in need. They found much [[poverty]] in this city and distributed many [[alms]]. But Ganid never [[understood]] the [[meaning]] of [[Jesus]]' [[words]] when, after he had given a coin to a street beggar, he refused to pause and speak comfortingly to the man. Said Jesus: " Why waste [[words]] upon one who cannot [[perceive]] the [[meaning]] of what you say? The [[spirit]] of [[the Father]] cannot teach and save one who has no [[capacity]] for sonship. " What Jesus meant was that the man was not of [[normal]] [[mind]]; that he lacked the [[ability]] to [[respond]] to [[spirit]] [[leading]].

130:8.5 There was no outstanding [[experience]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples Naples]; [[Jesus]] and the young man thoroughly canvassed the [[city]] and spread good [[cheer]] with many smiles upon hundreds of [[men]], [[women]], and [[children]].

130:8.5 There was no outstanding [[experience]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naples Naples]; [[Jesus]] and the young man thoroughly canvassed the [[city]] and spread good [[cheer]] with many smiles upon hundreds of [[men]], [[women]], and [[children]].

130:8.6 From here they went by way of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capua Capua] to [[Rome]], making a stop of three days at Capua. By the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appian_Way Appian Way] they [[journeyed]] on beside their pack animals toward [[Rome]], all three being anxious to see this mistress of [[empire]] and the greatest city in all the world.

130:8.6 From here they went by way of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capua Capua] to [[Rome]], making a stop of three days at Capua. By the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appian_Way Appian Way] they [[journeyed]] on beside their pack animals toward [[Rome]], all three being anxious to see this mistress of [[empire]] and the greatest city in all the world.

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[[Category:Paper 130 - On the Way to Rome]]

[[Category:Paper 130 - On the Way to Rome]]