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22:4 I persecuted this way. He did this from his zeal towards God, whom he thought he thus served.
Unto the death. This seems to imply that Stephen was not the only martyr in whose death he was an accomplice.
22:4 And persecuted this way - With the same zeal that you do now. Binding both men and women - How much better was his condition, now he was bound himself.
22:1-11 The apostle addressed the enraged multitude, in the customary style of respect and good-will. Paul relates the history of his early life very particularly; he notices that his conversion was wholly the act of God. Condemned sinners are struck blind by the power of darkness, and it is a lasting blindness, like that of the unbelieving Jews. Convinced sinners are struck blind as Paul was, not by darkness, but by light. They are for a time brought to be at a loss within themselves, but it is in order to their being enlightened. A simple relation of the Lord's dealings with us, in bringing us, from opposing, to profess and promote his gospel, when delivered in a right spirit and manner, will sometimes make more impression that laboured speeches, even though it amounts not to the full proof of the truth, such as was shown in the change wrought in the apostle.
Arresting Attacks Binding Continually Death Delivering Faith Followers New Persecuted Prison Prisons Putting Throwing Way Women
Arresting Attacks Binding Continually Death Delivering Faith Followers New Persecuted Prison Prisons Putting Throwing Way Women
