33 X Man, Risen from the Dead he will judge the world with justice, by the Man he has appointed—the Man whom he has raised from the dead.” “Raised from the dead!” cried a man from the audience, a follower of Plato. “You mean that his immortal spirit came to dwell in another form, perhaps in one of the heavenly bodies?” “I mean no such thing,” said the Jew. “I mean raised from the dead, in the flesh.” Laughter and mockery. For people who have grown old do not really wish to be made new. “But I followed him,” said Dionysius. “Light of my eyes,” he said, taking his wife’s hand in his, “I have invited him to our house. He is coming tonight.” The old world is always passing away Dionysius and his household welcomed Paul into their hearts. They welcomed Christ into their hearts. And this is a new thing in the world; the only really new thing the world has ever seen, and ever will see. For the world of man is sometimes a pathetic ruin, and sometimes a glorious ruin, but always old, and passing into death and oblivion. Athens had fallen into the shadows. Babylon was but a name. The Roman Empire, so grand, was already riddled with termites; it was already like a great hulking engine, without a soul, and rotting within. Every
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