Best biography apostle paul
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=Saul was born about the same time as our Lord. His circumcision-name was Saul, and probably the name Paul was also given to him in infancy "for use in the Gentile world," as "Saul" would be his Hebrew home-name.
He was a native of Tarsus, the capital of Cilicia, a Roman province in the south-east of Asia Minor.
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That city stood on the banks of the river Cydnus, which was navigable thus far; hence it became a centre of extensive commercial traffic with many countries along the shores of the Mediterranean, as well as with the countries of central Asia Minor.
It thus became a city distinguished for the wealth of its inhabitants.
Tarsus was also the seat of a famous university, higher in reputation even than the universities of Athens and Alexandria, the only others that then existed.Here Saul was born, and here he spent his youth, doubtless enjoying the best education his native city could afford.
His father was of the straightest sect of the Jews, a Pharis