Paul confesses that he compelled them to blaspheme, either:
1. By the torments he made them to be put unto; or:
2. By his own example; for he confessed that he had been a blasphemer himself, 1 Timothy 1:13. This blasphemy was either:
1. Denying of Christ to be the Messiah; or:
2. Cursing or execrating of Christ, and acknowledging that he was justly condemned. I persecuted them even unto strange cities; drove them out of Jerusalem and Judea; and, according to what Paul then believed, he drave them from the worship of the true God, and said in effect, as David's adversaries when they expelled him from Jerusalem, Go, and serve other gods, 1 Samuel 26:19.