...persecutor, turned trepanner, Acts 9. 26. None can express better what a lion he was, than he doth himself. Many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having...them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities, Acts 26. 10, 11. He seems also to have been a man of high and ambitious spirit. This persecuting probably...

...r>f Nazareth, became extremely XIX. irritated against the Christians, he gave his voice against them, punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme ; and when the first martyr, Stephen, was executed, St Paul was consenting to his death, and stood by and...

...myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. Which thing I also did in Jerusalem : and many of the saints did I shut up...them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to bUuphmt ; and being ezceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities." (Acts...

...seel of cur religion, I lived a Pharisee. 6 And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the prodid I shut up in prison, having received authority from...they were put to death, I gave my voice against them. 1 1 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme: and, being exceedingly...

...when they in ere put to death, (he says) I gave my voice against them, and I punishedthemoft inevery synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and, being...them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities. He then proceeds to the extraordinary circumstances which attended his conversion; gives an account...

...narrative of his conversion, is entirely opposed to the history (Acts ix. 1.), and to his own assertion : ' Being exceedingly mad against them, I ' persecuted them even unto strange cities.' We have no reason whatever to suppose that any change had taken place in his sentiments towards Christianity....

...myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. Which thing I also did in Jerusalem, and many of the saints did I shut up...them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities." Nevertheless, this rigid pharisee, who carried his devotion, to bigotry, and his zeal to fury, had...

...that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 10 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up...they were put to death, I gave my voice against them. 11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme : and being exceedingly...

...that I ought to do man? tilings contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 10 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up...having received authority from the chief priests ; and, w hen they were put to death, I gave my voice against them. 11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue,...

...things contrary to the name, (i against the name" of Jesus of Nazareth. 10. Which thing I also did in Jerusalem ; and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received au-» thority from the chief priests ; and when they were put to death I gave my voice against them....