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Acts
9:26-31
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| Historical References, Commentary and Comparative
Texts:
 | From the Geneva Notes.
 | "In ancient times no man was
rashly or lightly received into the members and the sheep of the
Church, much less to be a pastor." |
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| From
Matthew
Henry's Commentary.
| "Christ's witnesses cannot be
slain till they have finished their testimony. The persecutions were
stayed." |
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| From Wesley's Notes.
| "He who has been an enemy to
the truth ought not to be trusted till he gives proof that he is
changed." |
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| From the
Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
| "But this rest was owing not
so much to the conversion of Saul, as probably to the Jews being
engrossed with the emperor Caligula's attempt to have his own image
set up in the temple of Jerusalem [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities,
18.8.1, &c.]." |
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| From The People's
New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
| "Three years had passed since
he left the city, a proud, talented young Pharisee, with brilliant
worldly prospects, the honored agent of the Sanhedrim, commissioned
to stamp out Christianity at Damascus. He now returns a disciple of
him whom he sought to destroy, his bright worldly prospects all
forfeited, an outcast from his own nation, persecuted and hated. Why
this change? No explanation is possible, save that given in this
history and by himself." |
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| Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
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"The Meaning of Vocation," A.J. Conyers, (other resources at)
"Vocation," Christian Reflection, The Center for Christian
Ethics at Baylor University, 2004.
| "'Vocation' is
distorted by two disastrous misunderstandings: a secularized idea of
'career' and a monastic concept of the religious life." |
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"The
Conversion of Saul (Acts 9:1-31)," by Robert Deffinbaugh at the Biblical Studies Foundation.
| "Saul seems to have been the
instigator of the persecution of the church, which began at the
death of Stephen in Jerusalem and worked outward from there. With
the conversion of Saul, persecution of the church did not stop, for
now some of the Hellenistic Jews were opposing his preaching (and no
doubt, the church at large as well). It was only with the exit of
Saul from the Holy Land, back to his native land (Tarsus), that
peace once again returned." |
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