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Tarsus

City in Içel province, southeastern Turkey, on the River Pamuk; population (2000) 216,400. Formerly the capital of the Roman province of Cilicia, it was the birthplace of St Paul.



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About eighteen or nineteen hundred years ago, Saul, a native of Tarsus, was particularly bitter against the new sect called Christians, and he left Jerusalem and started across the country on a furious crusade against them.
Was not Saul of Tarsus converted from unbelief by a similar fright?
He loved Paul of Tarsus, liked St John, hated St James as much as he dared, and regarded with mixed feelings Timothy, Titus, and Philemon.
 
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