But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:
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
Christ suffered in His human nature, reproach, death, all of it foretold in Moses and the prophets with piercing detail: betrayed by a disciple, sold for thirty pieces of silver, crucified between thieves, His garments parted, gall and vinegar given Him to drink. Nothing Paul preaches is new; it is all written there.
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God's hand rescued me from determined malice and plots against my life, and I trace it all to Him alone. This is what a minister must do: preach to poor and rich alike without fear or favor, calling all to repentance, deferring to no man's station.
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