I Appeal To Caesar!

AUTHOR’S NOTE

This book is a “Historical Novel,” strongly based on biblical information and using reasonable historical interpretation: a blend of realism, sanctified imagination, and adventure. . . with the highest admiration for the Apostle Paul. How could the greatest persecutor of Christianity become the greatest promoter of Jesus Christ? An amazing transformation, and a life of miracles and grace that puts hope and faith in every heart. The following story uses both actual and fictional characters and supernatural happenings in the telling of real history. None of the episodes conflict with known scripture, but of course, the incidents, situations, and dialogues are products of my imagination and are presented as situations that could easily have taken place, especially when compared with the miraculous happenings recorded in the Bible and taking place in today’s Church.

Endnotes at the rear of the book give additional information and confirmation for each chapter.

“Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul was a first century Jew who, after being the bitterest enemy of the Christian Church, became its leading missionary and possibly its greatest theologian. His letters, the earliest extant Christian documents, antedate the Gospels of the New Testament. More than half of the Acts of the Apostles deals with his career, and this, together with the letters written by him or in his name, comprises one-third of the New Testament. His efforts and his vision of a world church were responsible for the rapid spread of Christianity and for the speed with which it became a universal religion. None of the followers of Jesus did more than he to establish the patterns of Christian thought and practice.”

Encyclopedia Britannica, V. 13, 15th Edition, p. 1090.