Acts 9:17

Σαούλ. See above on Acts 9:4.

ὁ κύριος … Ἰησούς. Ananias is guided to combine the name ‘Lord,’ which Saul had used when he beheld the vision of glory, with ‘Jesus’ which Christ had Himself uttered in answer to Saul’s question, ‘Who art thou?’ Thus his mission would bring at once its warrant to the mind of Saul. He was now confirmed from without of the verity of all he had seen in the way, and would recognize in Ananias the teacher who was to explain to him what he should do.

πλησθῇς πνεύματος ἁγίου, be filled with the Holy Ghost. On this occasion the hands laid on him to whom the gift was imparted were not those of an Apostle, except in so far as Ananias was Christ’s ἀπόστολος in this special case.