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PAUL A PRISONER 413 tered churches, exposed as they were to the persecutions of just such men as he had encountered in the Sanhedrim council. In distress and discouragement he wept and prayed. In this dark hour the Lord was not unmindful of His servant. He had guarded him from the murderous throng in the temple courts; He had been with him before the Sanhedrim council; He was with him in the fortress; and He revealed Himself to His faithful witness in response to the earnest prayers of the apostle for guidance. ''The night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of Me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.'' Paul had long looked forward to visiting Rome; he greatly desired to witness for Christ there, but had felt that his purposes were frustrated by the enmity of the Jews. He little thought, even now, that it would be as a prisoner that he would go. While the Lord encouraged His servant, Paul 's enemies were eagerly plotting his destruction. "And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy." Here was a fast such as the Lord through Isaiah had condemned, — a fast ''for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness." * The conspirators "came to the chief priests and elders, and said. We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul. Now therefore ye with the council sig- *Isa. 58:4.