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Verse Acts 9:9. _NEITHER DID EAT NOR DRINK._] The anxiety of his mind
and the anguish of his heart were so great that he had no appetite for
food; and he continued in total darkness and without food f...
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AND NEITHER DID EAT NOR DRINK - Probably because he was overwhelmed
with a view of his sins, and was thus indisposed to eat. All the
circumstances would contribute to this. His past life; his great si...
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CHAPTER 9
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1. The vision of Glory on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1).
2. Instructions given to Ananias (Acts 9:10).
3. Saul filled with the Spirit, is baptized and preaches that Jesus is
the Son...
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PAUL'S CONVERSION. This belongs geographically to the field of the
Hellenist mission, which was announced in Acts 8:4, and occupied that
whole chapter. We heard of that mission at Samaria and Cæ sarea...
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SURRENDER (Acts 9:1-9)...
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But Saul, still breathing out threat and murder to the disciples of
the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters of credit
to Damascus, to the synagogues there, so that if he found any...
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WITHOUT SLIGHT. not (Greek. _me)_ seeing (Greek. _blepo._ App-133.)
NEITHER. not. Greek. _ou._ App-105....
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_And he was three days without sight_ During this time we cannot but
think the illumination of his mind was being perfected by the Spirit.
He had been convinced by the vision that Jesus was risen from...
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ἩΜΈΡΑΣ ΤΡΕΙ͂Σ, _three days_. During this time we cannot
but think the illumination of his mind was being enlarged by the
Spirit. He had been convinced by the vision that Jesus was risen from
the dead...
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Acts 9:1-9. SAUL’S MISSION TO DAMASCUS AND HIS CONVERSION...
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_THE CONVERSION OF SAUL ACTS 9:1-18:_ Saul's early training helped him
to be a very sincere man. However, as important as sincerity is we
must remember that sincerity may be just as real in the heart...
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ΒΛΈΠΩΝ _praes. act. part., см._ Acts 9:8. Part, в роли
praed. _adj._ или в перифр. обороте,
ΈΦΑΓΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΣΘΊΩ (G2068) есть,
ΈΠΙΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΊΝΩ (G4095) пить....
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AND HE WAS THREE DAYS WITHOUT SIGHT,— Scales grew over his eyes, not
only to intimate to him the blindness of the state that he had been
in, but to impress him also with the deeper sense of the almigh...
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THE CONVERSION AND EARLY LABORS OF SAUL
Acts 9:1-30; Galatians 1:17-24
For a moment let us pause and look back over the pathway of the
narrative, Luke has given the following events since the beginni...
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IN DAMASCUS. Acts 9:8 b - Acts 9:22.
Acts 9:8 b
and they led him by the hand, and brought him to Damascus.
Acts 9:9
And he was three days without sight, and di
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See notes on verse 8...
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And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.
AND HE WAS THREE DAYS WITHOUT SIGHT, AND NEITHER DID EAT NOR DRINK -
that is, according to the Hebrew mode of computation, he too...
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26 It is notable that the messenger, or angel, who spoke to Philip is
also called "the spirit" (29) and "the spirit of the Lord" (39). This
suggests that these expressions may refer to created beings...
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SAUL BECOMES A CHRISTIAN
1-30. The Conversion of Saul is to regarded as a miraculous event. The
way for it may have been prepared by Stephen's speech, by the
spectacle of the constancy of the Christia...
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Saul fasted to show his penitence....
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GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE
ACTS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 9
JESUS APPEARS IN FRONT OF SAUL, 9:1-9
V1 Saul was still saying that he would hurt the *Lord’s *disciples.
He said that he would kill them. He...
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HE WAS THREE DAYS WITHOUT SIGHT. — It is natural to think of this
period of seclusion from the visible world as one of spiritual
communion with the invisible, and we can hardly be wrong in referring
t...
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ἦν … μὴ βλέπων : on ἦν with participle,
characteristic, see above on chap. Acts 1:10. Wendt (in seventh
edition, not in eighth), and so Felten, Alford, Hackett, distinguish
between μή and οὐ with ἔφαγ...
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WINNING A PERSECUTOR
Acts 9:1-9
A year had passed since Acts 8:3. “The Way” had become the
accepted phrase for the infant Church and its presentation of the
truth, Acts 19:9; Acts 22:4. It may refer...
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Opposition, the leader of which seems to have been Saul, continued.
Armed with letters from the high priest, he attempted to put an end to
the Nazarene heresy. It was on his journey with this intent t...
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Seeing the Light on the Damascus' Road
Saul not only persecuted the church in Jerusalem, but even went to
foreign cities to carry out his vicious persecution. Bruce presents
some evidence that the Jew...
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SAUL'S CONVERSION
1-15. As the Romans looked upon the Nazarenes as an insignificant
faction of Judaism, in some way to them utterly mysterious, out of
harmony with their own church, they acquiesced in...
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And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.
I should not have thought it necessary to have paused over those
verses, with any other remarks, than merely to have observed, that...
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We are now arrived at a turning-point in the history, not merely of
the church, but of the unfolding of the truth of God, and the
manifestation of His ways. The death of Stephen, therefore, has in
var...
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9.Whereas he saith, that he neither ate nor drank for the space of
three days, that is to be counted a part of the miracle. For although
the men of the east country endure hunger better than we, yet w...
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A work and a workman of another character begin now to dawn upon the
scene.
We have seen the inveterate opposition of the heads of Israel to the
testimony of the Holy Ghost, their obstinacy in repelli...
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AND HE WAS THREE DAYS WITHOUT SIGHT,.... Without bodily sight; for
otherwise all this while his spiritual sight was increasing, and
Christ was giving him by his Spirit a full view of himself, his stat...
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And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.
Ver. 9. _And he was three days_] In this three days' darkness, some
gather by computation of time, that he was now rapped up into t...
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_And Saul arose from the earth_ When Christ bade him; but probably not
without help, the vision having made him faint and weak, like Daniel;
when, upon receiving a vision, _no strength remained in him...
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THREE DAYS; this meant till the third day, or one whole day and a part
of two others. Matthew 12:40; Matthew 16:21....
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AND HE WAS THREE DAYS WITHOUT SIGHT, AND NEITHER DID EAT NOR DRINK.
Luke here for the first time mentions the companions of Saul, and
describes their behavior. The men that accompanied him stood stupe...
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The end of the vision:...
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Philip the evangelist is now put in the background, as the Spirit of
God begins a work of another kind, using a most unexpected workman.
Saul was filled with strongest animosity toward the disciples,...
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AND HE WAS THREE DAYS WITHOUT SIGHT, AND NEITHER ATE NOR DRANK.
1. Can you imagine - suddenly being blind? Alone? 120 miles from home?
2. All Saul could do was think about the events - his life, the...
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"And he was three days without sight, and did neither eat nor
drink"Three days without sight" Evidently his companions had brought
him to the place where arrangements had been made for him to stay.
"D...
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1-9 So ill informed was Saul, that he thought he ought to do all he
could against the name of Christ, and that he did God service thereby;
he seemed to breathe in this as in his element. Let us not d...
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Some have thought that in these three days Paul had that rapture into
the third heavens, which he speaks of, 2 CORINTHIANS 12:2; but that
seems rather to have been afterwards; God would, however, by t...
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Acts 9:9 And G2532 was G2258 (G5713) three G5140 days G2250 without
G3361 sight G991 (G5723) and...
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SAUL'S EXPERIENCE ON THE DAMASCUS ROAD (9:1-19)....
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‘And he was three days without sight, and did neither eat nor
drink.'
The condition of blindness lasted ‘three days'. In accordance with
usual custom this could mean anything from one and a half days...
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Acts 9:9. AND HE WAS THREE DAYS WITHOUT SIGHT, AND NEITHER DID EAT NOR
DRINK. Augustine writes how Saul was blinded that his heart might be
enlightened with an inner light. Then, when other things wer...
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_The Conversion of the Pharisee Leader Saul,_ 3-9.
After the Passion of the Lord, the conversion of St. Paul is the event
to which attention is most frequently called in the sacred writings.
Many time...
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NOT SEEING
(μη βλεπων). The usual negative μη of the participle. It was
a crisis for Saul, this sudden blindness for three days (ημερας
τρεις, accusative of extent of time). Later (Galatians 4:15) P...
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Acts 9:1
Early History and Conversion of Paul.
Viewed as a public event in the history of the Christian Church, the
conversion of Paul furnishes new and independent testimony to the
Divine origin of...
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Acts 9:1
The Conversion of St. Paul.
That blessed war of aggression which Jesus Christ wages upon the evil
one is a war which is made to maintain itself. Christ's soldiers are
His captured enemies. E...
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Acts 9:1. _And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter
against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, and
desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he fou...
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L, 2. _And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings, and slaughter against
the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, And desired of
him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found...
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Acts 9:1. _And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter
against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,-_
Notice that little word «yet.» «Saul yet breathing out threatenings
a...
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CONTENTS: Conversion of Saul of Tarsus. Paul preaches and visits
Jerusalem and returns to Tarsus. Peter heals Aeneas. Tabitha raised
from the dead.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, Saul, disciples, hi...
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Acts 9:1. _Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against
the disciples of the Lord._ Not less than two thousand of them, who
fell in this storm, were massacred indiscriminately. If what i...
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FOR THREE DAYS. Try to picture the panic and anguish of this devoutly
religious man who suddenly discovered he had _been fighting against_
the very God he loved and served!!! Compare Acts 2:37 and not...
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_And suddenly there shined round about him a light from heave._
THE HEAVENLY LIGHT
As the supernatural reflects the moral in all the miracles of the
Bible, so in the conversion of St. Paul. We have...
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_And Saul arose, and … they led him by the hand._
HAND LED
A wonderful change in the soul of which this was the symbol.
I. The hand yielded.
1. Confession of futile character of past opposition. S...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 9:1 In chs. Acts 6:1 Luke deals primarily with the
witness of the Jerusalem church among the dispersed Greek-speaking
Jews (the “Hellenists”) and with the apostle Peter. The conversi...
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 9:1. AND should be _but_ directing attention once more to Saul.
BREATHING OUT.—_Breathing in_ better renders the verb
ἐμπνέων, threatening and slaughter describing the atmosphe...
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EXPOSITION
ACTS 9:1
_But _for _and, _A.V.; _breathing _for _breathing out, _A.V.;
_threatening _for _threatenings, _A.V. THREATENING AND SLAUGHTER. The
phrase ἐμπνέων ἀπειλῆς κ.τ.λ., is rather a...
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When Alexander the Great conquered the world, he left pockets of Greek
culture throughout the world. So these pockets of Greek culture became
very influential. And even though the Roman Empire conquer...
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2 Chronicles 33:12; 2 Chronicles 33:13; 2 Chronicles 33:18; 2
Chronicles 33:19;...
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SAUL'S CONVERSION: A PATTERN AND A PROPHECY
1 Timothy 1:15; _with Acts 9:1_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We marvel, therefore, that what God wrought in Saul's conversion on
the Damascus road is as vital a pa...
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THE BENEFICENCE OF BLINDNESS
Acts 9:8
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We now come to a most interesting study. In our last message we saw
Saul, the persecutor, stricken down by a great light from Heaven. When
he...
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And he was three days — An important season! So long he seems to
have been in the pangs of the new birth. Without sight — By scales
growing over his eyes, to intimate to him the blindness of the state...