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The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 26:12-18

Acts 26:12-18Whereupon as I went to Damascus.The conversion of Saul of TarsusI. His character before his conversion.1. He was a moral man (Philippians 3:6). Yet he needed conversion. The necessity of conversion arises from the depravity of human nature, and not from a greater or less degree of immorality.2. He was a Pharisee. He was zealous for his religion, made long prayers, and did many deeds of charity. And have you any better religion?3. He was a hater of Christ, notwithstanding his morals... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 26:16-18

Acts 26:16-18But rise, and stand upon thy feet; for I have appeared unto thee to make thee a minister and a witness. Christianity self-attestedIf you had given you what was asserted to be a speech made long ago by your father, the first reading of it would settle the matter. Knowing your father, his sentiments, his mode of expression, you would be able to say instantly whether the speech was authentic or fabricated. We ought by this time to know enough of Christ’s manner to be able to say... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 26:18

Acts 26:18To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light.The effects of the gospelI. The opening of the eyes to let in the truth. The gospel shows us our dark, lost, and needy state, and the willingness and ample means of God to deliver us.II. The new bias of the soul, as a consequence.1. A turning away the mind from darkness and sin. “Men love darkness rather than light” in their natural state.2. An opposite yearning towards God.III. The grand object of that new bias is that the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 26:19-23

Acts 26:19-23Whereupon, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision.The heavenly visionThis is Paul’s account of the decisive moment on which all his own future, and a great deal of the future of Christianity and of the world, hung. The Voice had spoken from heaven, and now everything depended on the answer made. Will he submit or resist? The text makes us spectators of the very process of his yielding, “I became not disobedient”; as if the “disobedience” was the prior... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 26:8

8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead? Ver. 8. Why should it be thought a thing incredible? ] Philosophy indeed is against it. A privatione ad habitum, &c. Et redit in nihilum, quod fuit ante nihil, as the epicure in Ecclesiastes concludeth. But first, many heathens believed a resurrection; as Zoroaster, Theopolupus, and Plato. And the Stoic’s opinion was, that the world should be dissolved by fire or water; and all things brought to a... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 26:9

9 I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. Ver. 9. Contrary to the name, &c. ] Tertullian testifieth, that in the primitive Christians, nomen damnabatur, non crimen aut scelus: solum nomen innocuum, hominibus innocuis esse pro crimine, &c. And Tacitus to the same purpose, that when Nero had set the city on fire for his pleasure, and then fathered it upon the Christians, a great company of them were presently slaughtered, ... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 26:10

10 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them . Ver. 10. I gave my voice ] So did Gerson to the condemnation of John Huss and Jerome of Prague at the Council of Constance, against his conscience doubtless. (Joh. Manl.) So did the Lord Cromwell to the condemnation of Lambert the martyr; for the which he afterwards cried him mercy. And so did... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 26:11

11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities. Ver. 11. Compelled them to blaspheme ] So the ancient persecutors compelled many not only to renounce their religion, but to curse Christ. (Plin. Epist. ad Trajan.) When the Emperor Heraclius sent ambassadors to Chosroes, king of Persia, to desire peace of him, he received this threatening answer: I will not spare you, till I... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 26:12

12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, Ver. 12. See Trapp on " Act 9:2 " read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 26:13

13 At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me. Ver. 13. See Trapp on " Act 9:2 " read more

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 26:12-18

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 26:16-18

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 26:18

The Biblical Illustrator - Acts 26:19-23

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 26:8

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 26:9

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 26:10

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 26:11

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 26:12

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 26:13

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