CHAPTER XII

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GAMALIEL AND HIS PRUDENT ADVICE.

ACTS v. 38-40.

The Apostles again Brought before Sanhedrin--Because of St. Peter's Miracles--Note on the Miraculous Effects of St. Peter's Shadow and Hypnotism--St. Peter and Angelic Deliverances--Jortin's Theory--The Incarnation Rendered the Age a Special Time--The Sadducees and Materialism--Gamaliel a Pharisee--Effect of a Spiritual Creed on the Character--His Address--Cases of Judas and Theudas--Modern Illustrations--Gamaliel's Family History--Gamaliel in the _Clementine Recognitions_ and in Greek Christian Tradition--Gamaliel and Nicodemus in the _Bibliotheca_ of Photius--Gamaliel and the Spirit of Toleration--St. Augustine and Cornelius à Lapide--Conduct of the Apostles 229-245

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