“ And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink. ”
And neither did eat nor drink - Probably because he was overwhelmed with a view of his sins, and was thus indisposed to eat. All the circumstances would contribute to this. His past life; his gre...
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...
without slight . not (Greek. me) seeing (Greek. blepo. App-133.) neither . not. Greek. ou. App-105.
9. Whereas he saith, that he neither ate nor drank for the space of three days, that is to be counted a part of the miracle. For although the men of the east country endure hunger better than w...
And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink. Neither did eat nor drink - The anxiety of his mind and the anguish of his heart were so great that he had no appetite for food; an...
And he was three days without sight,— Scales grew over his eyes, not only to intimate to him the blindness of the state that he had been in, but to impress him also with the deeper sense of the alm...
And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink. And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink - that is, according to the Hebrew mode of computation,...
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 Chri...
He was three days without sight. — It is natural to think of this period of seclusion from the visible world as one of spiritual communion with the invisible, and we can hardly be wrong in referrin...
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 . I...
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...
And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink. I should not have thought it necessary to have paused over those verses, with any other remarks, than merely to have observed, tha...
And he was three days without sight ,.... Without bodily sight; for otherwise all this while his spiritual sight was increasing, and Christ was giving him by his Spirit a full view of himself, his s...
And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink. Ver. 9. And he was three days ] In this three days' darkness, some gather by computation of time, that he was now rapped up int...
And Saul arose from the earth When Christ bade him; but probably not without help, the vision having made him faint and weak, like Daniel; when, upon receiving a vision, no strength remained in hi...
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,...
Saul's Conversion. 1 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high p...
Some have thought that in these three days Paul had that rapture into the third heavens, which he speaks of, 2 Corinthians 12:2 ; but that seems rather to have been afterwards; God would, however,...
Saul's Experience on the Damascus Road (9:1-19).
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...
Acts 9:1-19 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 ene...
Acts 9:1-2 . 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 h...
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 wha...
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 ha...
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.,...
The end of the vision:
2 Chronicles 33:12 ; 2 Chronicles 33:13 ; 2 Chronicles 33:18 ; 2 Chronicles 33:19 ; Acts 9:11 ; Acts 9:12 ; Esther 4:16 ; Jonah 3:6-8
Saul's Conversion: A Pattern and a Prophecy 1 Timothy 1:15-16 ; with Acts 9:1-43 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We marvel, therefore, that what God wrought in Saul's conversion on the Damascus road i...
And he was three days — An important season! So long he seems to have been in the pangs of the new birth. Without sight — By scales growing over his eyes, to intimate to him the blindness of the st...