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ACTS 9:5-6 diw,keij\ avlla,
After diw,keij (and omitting avlla, of ver. Acts 9:6) the Textus
Receptus adds sklhro,n soi pro.j ke,ntra lakti,zein. (6...
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Verse Acts 9:6. _TREMBLING_] Under a strong apprehension of meeting
the judgment he deserved.
_AND ASTONISHED_] At the _light_, the _thunder_, and the _voice_.
_LORD, WHAT WILT THOU HAVE ME TO DO?_...
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AND HE, TREMBLING - Alarmed at what he saw and heard, and at the
consciousness of his own evil course. It is not remarkable that a
sinner trembles when he sees his guilt and danger.
AND ASTONISHED -...
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CHAPTER 9
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1. The vision of Glory on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1).
2. Instructions given to Ananias (Acts 9:10).
3. Saul filled with the Spirit, is baptized and preaches that Jesus is
the Son...
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PAUL'S CONVERSION. This belongs geographically to the field of the
Hellenist mission, which was announced in Acts 8:4, and occupied that
whole chapter. We heard of that mission at Samaria and Cæ sarea...
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SURRENDER (Acts 9:1-9)...
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But Saul, still breathing out threat and murder to the disciples of
the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters of credit
to Damascus, to the synagogues there, so that if he found any...
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ARISE. Greek. _anistemi._ App-178.
INTO. Greek. _eis._ App-104.
TOLD. Greek. _laleo._ App-121....
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_Arise_ The MSS. which omit the above words insert a conjunction here.
Read, _But_arise. Saul had continued prostrate as he had fallen down
at the first.
_and go into the city_ A proof that the party...
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Acts 9:1-9. SAUL’S MISSION TO DAMASCUS AND HIS CONVERSION...
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ἈΛΛᾺ�, _but arise_. Saul had continued prostrate during the
vision, just where he had been struck down at first.
ΕἸΣ ΤῊΝ ΠΌΛΙΝ, _into the city_. Here is another proof
that the party of travellers had...
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5, 6. σκληρόν σοι πρὸς κέντρα λακτίζειν.
τρέμων τε καὶ θαμβῶν εἶπεν, Κύριε, τί
με θέλεις ποιῆσαι; καὶ ὁ κύριος πρὸς
αὐτόν omitted with אABCEHLP. The _Vulg_. represents it.
5, 6. The words here omitted...
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_THE CONVERSION OF SAUL ACTS 9:1-18:_ Saul's early training helped him
to be a very sincere man. However, as important as sincerity is we
must remember that sincerity may be just as real in the heart...
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DISCOURSE: 1762
CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL
Acts 9:3. And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly
there shined round about him a light from heaven: and he fell to the
earth, and heard a voice...
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SUDDENLY THERE SHINED ROUND ABOUT HIM A LIGHT, &C.— It was about
noon that Saul with his company came nigh the city of Damascus; when
suddenly there appeared the _Shechinah,_ or the glory of the Lord,...
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THE CONVERSION AND EARLY LABORS OF SAUL
Acts 9:1-30; Galatians 1:17-24
For a moment let us pause and look back over the pathway of the
narrative, Luke has given the following events since the beginni...
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ON THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS. Acts 9:3-8 a.
Acts 9:3
And as he journeyed, it came to pass that he drew nigh unto Damascus:
and suddenly there shone round about him a light out of heaven:
Acts 9:4
and he...
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See notes on verse 5...
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And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to
do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it
shall be told thee what thou must do.
[AND HE, TREMBLING AN...
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26 It is notable that the messenger, or angel, who spoke to Philip is
also called "the spirit" (29) and "the spirit of the Lord" (39). This
suggests that these expressions may refer to created beings...
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SAUL BECOMES A CHRISTIAN
1-30. The Conversion of Saul is to regarded as a miraculous event. The
way for it may have been prepared by Stephen's speech, by the
spectacle of the constancy of the Christia...
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GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE
ACTS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 9
JESUS APPEARS IN FRONT OF SAUL, 9:1-9
V1 Saul was still saying that he would hurt the *Lord’s *disciples.
He said that he would kill them. He...
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AND HE TREMBLING AND ASTONISHED... — The words stand, as far as
textual authority is concerned, on the same footing as the foregoing,
but, for the same reason, will be dealt with here. We note (1) the...
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Acts 9:1
CHAPTER 2
THE CONVERSION OF THE PERSECUTOR.
Acts 8:3; Acts 9:1
WE have in the last chapter traced the course of St. Paul's life as we
know it from his own reminiscences, from hints in Hol...
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For this verse see critical notes and also Acts 22:10.
Ἀνάστηθι : verb characteristic of St. Luke, see on Acts 5:7.
Here, if we compare Acts 26:16 (Acts 14:10), it is evidentl
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WINNING A PERSECUTOR
Acts 9:1-9
A year had passed since Acts 8:3. “The Way” had become the
accepted phrase for the infant Church and its presentation of the
truth, Acts 19:9; Acts 22:4. It may refer...
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Opposition, the leader of which seems to have been Saul, continued.
Armed with letters from the high priest, he attempted to put an end to
the Nazarene heresy. It was on his journey with this intent t...
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Seeing the Light on the Damascus' Road
Saul not only persecuted the church in Jerusalem, but even went to
foreign cities to carry out his vicious persecution. Bruce presents
some evidence that the Jew...
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SAUL'S CONVERSION
1-15. As the Romans looked upon the Nazarenes as an insignificant
faction of Judaism, in some way to them utterly mysterious, out of
harmony with their own church, they acquiesced in...
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And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom
thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. (6)
And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou hav...
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We are now arrived at a turning-point in the history, not merely of
the church, but of the unfolding of the truth of God, and the
manifestation of His ways. The death of Stephen, therefore, has in
var...
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_THE YOUNG CONVERT’S INQUIRY_
‘Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?’
Acts 9:6
There is much to learn, and much to imitate, in these words, if you
take almost each of them separately. But I want to f...
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_THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL_
‘And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice … Arise, and go into
the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.’
Acts 9:4; Acts 9:6
Of all the followers of Chr...
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6.The fruit of that reprehension followeth, wherewith we have said it
was requisite that Paul should have been sore shaken, that his
hardness might be broken. For now he offereth himself as ready to d...
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A work and a workman of another character begin now to dawn upon the
scene.
We have seen the inveterate opposition of the heads of Israel to the
testimony of the Holy Ghost, their obstinacy in repelli...
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AND HE TREMBLING AND ASTONISHED,.... At the light and voice, and
appearance of Christ, and especially at the words last spoken; he was
now pricked to the heart, and filled with a sense of sin, and loa...
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And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to
do? And the Lord _said_ unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it
shall be told thee what thou must do.
Ver. 6. _It shall be...
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_And, trembling and astonished_ To find that he whom he had so often
affronted and despised, yea, blasphemously and virulently opposed,
even Jesus of Nazareth, was such a glorious and powerful person;...
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AND HE, TREMBLING AND ASTONISHED, SAID, LORD, WHAT WILT THOU HAVE ME
TO DO? AND THE LORD SAID UNTO HIM, ARISE, AND GO INTO THE CITY, AND IT
SHALL BE TOLD THEE WHAT THOU MUST DO.
Saul, having readily o...
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The miraculous vision:...
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Philip the evangelist is now put in the background, as the Spirit of
God begins a work of another kind, using a most unexpected workman.
Saul was filled with strongest animosity toward the disciples,...
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SO HE, TREMBLING AND ASTONISHED, SAID, " LORD, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO
DO? " THEN THE LORD _SAID_ TO HIM, " ARISE AND GO INTO THE CITY, AND
YOU WILL BE TOLD WHAT YOU MUST DO. "
1. There is some disput...
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"but rise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what
thou must do"But rise" Saul had asked the question, "What shall. do,
Lord?" (Acts 22:10). Notice that Jesus does not endorse the doct...
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1-9 So ill informed was Saul, that he thought he ought to do all he
could against the name of Christ, and that he did God service thereby;
he seemed to breathe in this as in his element. Let us not d...
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OLBGrk;
LORD, WHAT WILT THOU HAVE ME TO DO? Saul, being thoroughly humbled,
and brought to resign himself wholly to God, makes this question,
giving up himself as a white paper, for Christ to write wh...
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Acts 9:6 So G5037 trembling G5141 (G5723) and G2532 astonished G2284
(G5723) said G2036 (G5627) Lord...
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‘And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus
whom you are persecuting, but rise, and enter into the city, and it
will be told you what you must do.” '
Saul had been humbled to the groun...
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SAUL'S EXPERIENCE ON THE DAMASCUS ROAD (9:1-19)....
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_The Conversion of the Pharisee Leader Saul,_ 3-9.
After the Passion of the Lord, the conversion of St. Paul is the event
to which attention is most frequently called in the sacred writings.
Many time...
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The best MSS. do not have "trembling and astonished," and "What wilt
thou have me to do, Lord?" The Textus Receptus put these words in here
without the authority of a Greek codex. See Acts 22:10 above...
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Acts 9:6
The Apostle's experience may never again be exactly reproduced as
regards its external circumstances; but in every manifestation of God
to the soul which has hitherto been ignorant of His tr...
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Acts 9:1
Early History and Conversion of Paul.
Viewed as a public event in the history of the Christian Church, the
conversion of Paul furnishes new and independent testimony to the
Divine origin of...
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Acts 9:1
The Conversion of St. Paul.
That blessed war of aggression which Jesus Christ wages upon the evil
one is a war which is made to maintain itself. Christ's soldiers are
His captured enemies. E...
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Acts 9:1. _And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter
against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, and
desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he fou...
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L, 2. _And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings, and slaughter against
the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, And desired of
him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found...
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Acts 9:1. _And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter
against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,-_
Notice that little word «yet.» «Saul yet breathing out threatenings
a...
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CONTENTS: Conversion of Saul of Tarsus. Paul preaches and visits
Jerusalem and returns to Tarsus. Peter heals Aeneas. Tabitha raised
from the dead.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, Saul, disciples, hi...
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Acts 9:1. _Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against
the disciples of the Lord._ Not less than two thousand of them, who
fell in this storm, were massacred indiscriminately. If what i...
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WHERE YOU WILL BE TOLD WHAT YOU MUST DO. He must come into the Kingdom
in the same way the others have. Christ has placed the terms of
salvation into human hands, and Saul must learn what to do to be...
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_And suddenly there shined round about him a light from heave._
THE HEAVENLY LIGHT
As the supernatural reflects the moral in all the miracles of the
Bible, so in the conversion of St. Paul. We have...
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_And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what will Thou have me to
do?_
SAUL OF TARSUS CONVERTED
These words--
I. Are illustrative of a singular transformation of mind. We would not
forget the a...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 9:1 In chs. Acts 6:1 Luke deals primarily with the
witness of the Jerusalem church among the dispersed Greek-speaking
Jews (the “Hellenists”) and with the apostle Peter. The conversi...
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 9:1. AND should be _but_ directing attention once more to Saul.
BREATHING OUT.—_Breathing in_ better renders the verb
ἐμπνέων, threatening and slaughter describing the atmosphe...
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EXPOSITION
ACTS 9:1
_But _for _and, _A.V.; _breathing _for _breathing out, _A.V.;
_threatening _for _threatenings, _A.V. THREATENING AND SLAUGHTER. The
phrase ἐμπνέων ἀπειλῆς κ.τ.λ., is rather a...
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When Alexander the Great conquered the world, he left pockets of Greek
culture throughout the world. So these pockets of Greek culture became
very influential. And even though the Roman Empire conquer...
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1 Samuel 28:5; 1 Timothy 1:14; Acts 10:22; Acts 10:32; Acts 10:6;...
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Trembling and astonished. The best texts omit....
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SAUL'S CONVERSION: A PATTERN AND A PROPHECY
1 Timothy 1:15; _with Acts 9:1_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We marvel, therefore, that what God wrought in Saul's conversion on
the Damascus road is as vital a pa...
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THREE GREAT QUESTIONS
Acts 9:4
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
When Saul of Tarsus was stricken down to the ground by a great light,
he heard a voice saying, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?"
Saul had thou...
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It shall be told thee — So God himself sends Saul to be taught by a
man, as the angel does Cornelius, Acts 10:5. Admirable condescension!
that the Lord deals with us by men, like ourselves....
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Observe here, 1. How easily God can make the fiercest persecutor to
quake and tremble: Saul is struck down, but it is to convert him, not
confound him; he trembles, but his trembling was in order to
r...