23-31, He who feeds on Scripture must wax strong. The new convert started at once to testify of the Saviour. We have no right to keep to ourselves the great treasures that we have discovered, but must copy the lepers of 2 Kings 7:9. He probably showed from a comparison between the predictions of the Old Testament and the facts of our Lord’s life, that the key exactly fitted the wards of the ancient lock, and so proved its genuineness.

Those many days in v. 23 probably include the three years spent in Arabia, Gal. 1:17. It was as though Paul wanted time and solitude for quiet thought. We may suppose that he went to Sinal, and there amid the silences of the school where Moses had studied before him, he received of the Lord Jesus that which also he was commissioned to pass on to the Church. From