Sketches from the Life of Paul (1883) — PDF Scan 268
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THE VOYAGE AND SHIPWRECK . 261 nal,itwas beyond thejurisdictionof Festusor Agrippa. Yet, two yearsafterward, theresult ofthatday'sproceedingssavedthelifesopreciousto thecauseof God . Festus, findingthat his own judgment of the case, on groundsof Roman justice, was sustainedfrom a Jewish stand-pointby the protectorof the temple,sent a letterto the emperor, statingthat no legal chargecouldbefoundagainsttheprisoner. And Nero,crueland unscrupulousashe was, dared not put to death a man whom Lysias, Felix, Festus, and Agrippa pronounced guiltless, and whom even the Sanhedrim could not condemn . CHAPTER XXIV . THE VOYAGE AND SHIPWRECK . " AND when it was determined that we should sailintoItaly,theydeliveredPaul and certain otherprisonersuntoone named Julius,a centurionof Augustus' band. And enteringintoa shipof Adramyttium,we launched,meaning to sailby the coastsof Asia; one Aristarchus, a Macedonianof Thessalonica,beingwithus." Adramyttium was situatedupon thewestcoast of the provinceof Asia; thereforethe travelers couldperformbut a part of theirjourneyin a shipbound for that city. But in some of the largerportsat which the vesseltouched, they would be likelyto finda ship in which they could embark for Rome . In the firstcentury of the Christianera, travelingby sea as wellas by land was attended with fargreaterdifficultythan at thepresent