Paul before Felix and Festus, 137
Appeals to Caesar, 138
His defence before Agrippa, 139
His voyage to Rome, and shipwreck, 142
His arrival in Italy, 145
Greatness and luxury of Rome, ib.
Paul preaches in his own hired house, 148
His zeal, labours, and success, 149
Writes to Philemon, to the Colossians, the Ephesians, and the
Philippians, 150
CHAPTER X.
Paul’s second imprisonment, and
martyrdom; Peter, his epistles,
his martyrdom, and the Roman
church.
Evidences of Paul’s release from his first Roman
imprisonment, 152
His visit to Spain,
153
Writes the Epistle to the Hebrews,
154
Revisits Jerusalem, and returns to Rome,
155
His second Roman imprisonment,
ib.
Writes Second Epistle to Timothy,
ib.
Date of his martyrdom,
156
Peter’s arrival in Rome,
ib.
His First Epistle written from Rome,
157
Why Rome called Babylon,
158
Peter writes his Second Epistle,
ib.
His testimony to the inspiration of Paul,
159
His martyrdom,
160
Circumstances which, at an early period, gave prominence
to the
Church of Rome,
ib.
Its remarkable history,
162
CHAPTER XI.
The persecutions of the apostolic
church, and its condition at
the
termination of the first century.