Acts 9:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He is a chosen vessel: the whole world is God's fabric, and the church especially is his house: not only in the whole world, but in the visible church, there are all sorts of utensils, some for higher, others for meaner uses; Saul was to be a vessel unto honour, Romans 9:21, into which the treasures of God's word were to be put, 2 Corinthians 4:7, though he was but an earthen vessel: Such was indeed chosen by God to preach the gospel, Galatians 1:15,16, to suffer for Christ's name's sake, 1 Thessalonians 3:3. To bear my name before the Gentiles: this mystery of the calling of the Gentiles began now to spread abroad, and to be made more known, which was hid in those promises, Isaiah 49:6 Jeremiah 1:10.