Footnotes:
[1]. See Paul's sermon, Acts 13:14-41.
LESSON 27
FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY—Continued
AT LYSTRA AND DERBE
"Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak more firmly in the ground."
"As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them."
Among the Heathen.
At Lystra, Paul and Barnabas found a people who were almost entirely heathen for they worshiped Jupiter and Mercury and other false deities, and knew little or nothing about the true God. There were Jews amongst them, but not of sufficient numbers even to build a synagogue.
The country was wild and rugged, and the inhabitants were like the country. They were "villagers of little learning, and rude in dress and manner." Such people are usually shy of strangers, and slow to accept anything new. But once they begin to get confidence in the stranger, they may be easily swayed by him; not having very definite opinions of their own.