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128 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES the cross, Paul determined not to know anything, . . . save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. ' ' " Throughout his later ministry, Paul never lost sight of the Source of his wisdom and strength. Hear him, years afterward, still declaring, '^For to me to live is Christ. ' ' And again : ' ' I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, . . . that. I may win Christ, and be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings. ' ' From Arabia Paul returned again unto Damascus,"'' and preached boldly ... in the name of Jesus." Unable to withstand the wisdom of his arguments, ^'the Jews took counsel to kill him." The gates of the city were diligently guarded day and night, to cut off his escape. This crisis led the disciples to seek God earnestly; and finally they ''took him by night, and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket. ' ' After his escape from Damascus, Paul went to Jerusalem, about three years having passed since his conversion. His chief object in making this visit, as he himself declared afterward, was ''to see Peter. ' ' " Upon arriving in the city where he had once been well known as "Saul the persecutor," "he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was " 1 Cor. 2:2. " Phil. 1 : 21. Phil. 3 : 8-10. ^^Gal. 1:17. Acts 9 : 25, E. V. ^^Gal. 1:18.