...prison, having received authority from the chief priests ; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice 'against them. And I punished them oft in...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...

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...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...

...prison, having received authority from the chief priests ; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them. And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to bUuphmt ; and being ezceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities." (Acts...

...authority from the chief priests ; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them. 1 1 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled...them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities. 12 Whereupon, as I went to Damascus, with authority and commission from the chief priests, 1 3 At mid-day,...

...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....

...prison, having received authority from the chief priests ; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them. And I punished them oft in...them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities." Nevertheless, this rigid pharisee, who carried his devotion, to bigotry, and his zeal to fury, had...

...authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them. 11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled...them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities. 12 Whereupon, as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, 13 At mid-day,...

...exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them, u I was pursuing them" even to strange cities. 12. Whereupon, as I went to Damascus, with authority and commission from the chief priests, 13. At mid-day, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining...