ACC ~ Acts 9 v6

INSTRUCTION FOLLOWS CONVERSION. BEDE: Jesus did not immediately show him what was to be done. Instead, he foretold that he was to hear about it afterwards in the city, “so that later when he arose he would be more firmly established in the good, to the extent that he had first become radically changed and had fallen away from his former error.” COMMENTARY ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 9.6.

CHRIST’S WISE DEALING WITH PAUL. AMBROSE: Although Paul was struck and taken up and was terrified because blindness had befallen him, still he began to come near when he said, “Lord, what will you have me do?” For that reason he is called the youngest by Christ,so that he who was called to grace could be excused from the guilt of his hazardous years. Yes, Christ saw him when the light shone round him; because young people are recalled from sin more by fear than by reason, Christ applied the goad and mercifully admonished him not to kick against it. JOSEPH 10.58.

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