‘Lord,’ I answered, ‘they know very well that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in You.
19. Lord, they know. By this speech Paul doth testify that he was not beside himself, or brought into perplexity, “Mente aliena tam vel perplexum,” alienated or perplexed in mind. but that he did assuredly believe the oracle. For without doubt he knew Christ, whom he calleth Lord.
Paul here gives such an account of himself as might serve not only to satisfy the chief captain that he was not that Egyptian he took him to be, but the Jews also that he was not that enemy to their church and nation, to their law and temple, they took him to be, and that what he did in preaching Christ, and particularly in...
Commenting on Acts 22:3-21
And he said unto me, depart,.... At once from Jerusalem, and out of the land of Judea: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles; to the nations afar off, even as far as Illyricum, Pannonia, or Hungary, where the apostle went and preached, Rom 15:19 and so by a divine mission and commission he became the apostle of the Gentiles, and preached...