Acts 26:14

Acts 26:14. And when we were all fallen to the earth. See note on Acts 9:7, where the apparent discrepancy between the two accounts is discussed.

I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue. On the use of the Hebrew tongue on this solemn occasion, see the Excursus at the end of this chapter.

It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. This proverb, well known in classical writers, is discussed at length in an Excursus which follows chapter 9. Although these words are omitted in the account of the appearance on the Damascus road by the writer of the ‘Acts' in chap. Acts 9:5, and must therefore in that place be expunged from the text , here there is no shadow of doubt that the words formed part of Paul's own account of the ‘appearance.' Later scribes, as they copied MSS. of the ‘Acts,' finding them here, no doubt inserted them in the passage of the ninth chapter, which relates the Lord's words to Saul.