We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
Paul was stopped dead in his tracks by a power from heaven that no earthly authority could match, even one armed with the full weight of the chief priests behind it. A vision and a voice together seized him, not by force of men, but by divine energy, and turned the persecutor into a preacher. What resistance can stand against God?
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Commenting on Acts 26:12-23
The whole company fell from fear of the Divine Majesty made present in that extraordinary light. The other accounts mention only Saul's fall, but this detail stands firm: he heard a voice speaking to him in the Hebrew tongue, addressing him by name with a question that cut to the root of his blind persecution.
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