delivering thee i.e. though they may and will seize upon thee and persecute thee, yet I am with thee and will save thee from their hands. From the first the Apostle knew that in every city persecution was to be his lot.

the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee The best authorities (with Rev. Ver.) omit "now." The verb "send" Is that from which the word "Apostle" comes, and its force is "I make thee my Apostle." In the oldest texts the Iis emphatically expressed. "Thou art, as well as the rest, an Apostle chosen by me the Lord Jesus." The mission to the Gentiles seems to have been made clear to Saul from the very first. Compare his own language Galatians 1:16. And in Acts 9:29 his preaching appears to have been rather directed to the Greek-Jews than to the members of the Church in Jerusalem.

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