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THE FINAL ARREST . 307 Thousands had been martyred for theirfaith, many had leftthe city,and thosewho remained were greatlydepressedand intimidated. At Paul'sfirstarrival,the Jews of Rome had been willingtolistento hisarguments; but through the influenceof emissariesfrom Jerusalem, and alsobecauseof thereceivedchargesagainstthe Christians,theyhad become hisbitterenemies. No warm -hearteddisciplesnow met Paul and hiscompanionsatAppii Forum and ThreeTavernsasbefore,when he was constrainedtothank God and take courage. There was now no one likethe courteousand kindly Julius,to say a word in his favor,no statement from Festus or Agrippa to attesthis innocence. The change which had takenplaceinthecityand itsinhabitants--thecitystillscarredand blackenedfrom the terribleconflagration, and the people, by tensof thousands,reducedto the most squalid poverty- seemedto harmonizewith the change in his own conditionand prospects. Through the surging crowds that stillthronged the streetsof Rome ,and thatlookedupon him and his fellow-Christians as the authors of alltheir misery, Paul passed,not now to hisown hired house,but to a gloomy dungeon,thereto remain, chainednight and day, untilhe shouldfinish his course . -TovisitPaul now was not,as duringhisfirst imprisonment,tovisita man againstwhom no charge had been sustained, and who had won favorableopinionsfrom princesand rulers. It was tovisitone who was theobjectof universal hatred, who was accused of instigatingthe basestand most terriblecrime againstthe city and thenation, Whoever venturedtoshow him