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ACTS 26:14 gh/n
After eivj th.n gh/n the Western text (614 1611 2147 itgig syrhmg)
adds dia. to.n fo,bon evgw. mo,noj (“when we had all fallen to the
ground _on account of fear, only I_ heard …”)....
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See this passage explained in the notes on Acts 9:5, etc....
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CHAPTER 26
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1. The Address of the Apostle Paul (Acts 26:2).
2. The Interruption by Festus and the Appeal to the King (Acts 26:24).
3. The Verdict (Acts 26:30).
The opening words of the Apostle a...
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PAUL SPEAKS BEFORE AGRIPPA. It is Agrippa the vassal king, not Festus
the representative of the sovereign power, who calls on Paul to speak,
and to whom Paul addresses himself throughout, even after t...
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THE DEFENCE OF A CHANGED MAN (Acts 26:1-11)...
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"When, in these circumstances, I was on my way to Damascus with
authority and commission from the chief priests, as I was on the road
at midday, I saw, your Majesty. a light from heaven, more brillian...
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FALLEN. fallen down. Greek. _katapipto._ Only here and Acts 28:6.
EARTH. Greek. _ge_. App-129.
SPEAKING. Greek. _lalo._ App-121., but the texts read "saying"
(_lego_).
AND SAYING. The texts omit....
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_I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying_ The oldest MSS. have
only "a voice saying unto me." Saul alone gathered the import of what
was said. His companions only heard the sound, not the words....
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Acts 26:1-23. PAUL’S DEFENCE BEFORE AGRIPPA...
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ΛΈΓΟΥΣΑΝ ΠΡΌΣ ΜΕ with אABCI omitting καὶ
λέγουσαν afterwards. The _Vulg_. has only ‘loquentem
mini.’
14. ἬΚΟΥΣΑ ΦΩΝῊΝ ΛΈΓΟΥΣΑΝ ΠΡΌΣ, _I heard a
voice saying unto me_. Saul alone gathered the import o...
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_PAUL'S CONVERSION AND COMMISSION ACTS 26:12-18:_ Paul was on my way
to Damascus with the authority from the chief priests when he saw a
bright light and heard a voice from heaven. He came to realize...
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ΚΑΤΑΠΕΣΌΝΤΩΝ _aor. act. part._ ΡM КАΤΑΠΊΠΤΩ
(G2667) падать ниц. Обычная реакция на
откровение. _Gen. abs._ ΉΚΟΥΣΑ _aor. ind. act. от_
ΆΚΟΎΩ (G191) слышать, с _асс._
ΛΈΓΟΥΣΑΝ _praes. act. part. (adj.)...
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TO KICK AGAINST THE PRICKS.— Or, _Against the goad._...
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f.
Paul's defense before King Agrippa. Acts 25:13 bActs 26:32.
Acts 25:13
Now when certain days were passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice
arrived at Caesarea, and saluted Festus....
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See notes on verse 12...
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And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking
unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest
thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
N...
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1 King Agrippa was a notable figure throughout the closing period of
Jewish national life. He was the last prince of the Herodian line.
Unlike the Roman governors, who were frequently replaced and mos...
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26:14 voice (a-13) As ch. 9.4 (accusative)....
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DEFENCE BEFORE AGRIPPA
1-32. St. Paul before Agrippa. This speech, though in form a defence
to the Jews, is really intended by St. Luke to be St. Paul's defence
to the world—an apology for his whole...
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GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE
ACTS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 26
PAUL SPEAKS TO KING AGRIPPA, 26:1-11
V1 Agrippa told Paul, ‘You may now speak for yourself.’ Paul
waved his hand. He said, V2 ‘King Agrippa,...
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IT IS HARD FOR THEE TO KICK AGAINST THE PRICKS. — See Note on Acts
9:5. Here there is no doubt as to the genuineness of the reading....
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See notes on Acts 9:7 and Acts 22:7, and reading above in β. τῇ
Ἑβραΐδι διαλ.: this is intimated in Acts 9:4 and Acts 22:7
by the form Σαούλ, but here the words are inserted because Paul
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OBEDIENT TO HIS HEAVENLY VISION
Acts 26:12
Nowhere else is there such deliverance from the glare and cross-lights
of earth as is afforded by a vision of the face of Jesus, brighter
than the sun at no...
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Agrippa intimated to Paul that he might speak, and the apostle spent a
moment in introductory words, and then uttered his great apologia, in
which a twofold purpose is evident, first, his own defense,...
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Paul's Account of His Conversion and Life Following
On his way to Damascus in pursuit of more Christians, Paul reported
that he saw a great light, which was brighter than the sun, coming out
of heaven...
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It is generally supposed that St. Paul addresses king Agrippa in the
Greek language, which was the common tongue of a great part of the
East. (Bible de Vence)...
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Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and
questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear
me patiently. (4) My manner of life from my youth, which was at the...
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The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an
episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to
Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
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_THE VOICE FROM HEAVEN_
‘I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying … It is hard for
thee to kick against the pricks.’
Acts 26:14
So far as we know, those words were the first with which the sile...
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Paul's address to king Agrippa furnishes us with the most complete
picture of the entire position of the apostle, as he himself looked at
it when his long service and the light of the Holy Ghost illum...
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AND WHEN WE WERE ALL FALLEN TO THE EARTH,.... Saul, and the men that
were with him, for fear of the divine Majesty, who by this
extraordinary light was thought to be present: the other narratives
only...
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And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking
unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest
thou me? _it is_ hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Ver...
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_Whereupon, as I went to Damascus_, &c. See notes on Acts 9:3, and
Acts 22:5; where the substance of this paragraph occurs, and is
explained. _At mid-day, O king_ Most seasonably, in the height of the...
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Paul's recital of his miraculous conversion:...
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AND WHEN WE WERE ALL FALLEN TO THE EARTH, I HEARD A VOICE SPEAKING
UNTO ME, AND SAYING IN THE HEBREW TONGUE. SAUL, SAUL, WHY PERSECUTEST
THOU ME? IT IS HARD FOR THEE TO KICK AGAINST THE PRICKS....
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At Agrippa's invitation to him to speak, Paul is fully prepared. He
expresses his happiness at being privileged to answer for himself to
the king, especially because he knew Agrippa to be an expert in...
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12-23 Paul was made a Christian by Divine power; by a revelation of
Christ both to him and in him; when in the full career of his sin. He
was made a minister by Divine authority: the same Jesus who a...
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IN THE HEBREW TONGUE; whereby it appears, that Paul spake not now
before Agrippa in the Hebrew tongue, as he did before the Jews at
Jerusalem, ACTS 21:40. IT IS HARD FOR THEE TO KICK AGAINST THE PRICK...
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Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians "It is hard to kick against
the pricks; "[73]...
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Acts 26:14 And G1161 we G2257 all G3956 fallen G2667 (G5631) to G1519
ground G1093 heard G191 ...
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“Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and
commission of the chief priests, at midday, O king, I saw on the way a
light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round
ab...
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Acts 26:14. AND WHEN WE WERE ALL FALLEN TO THE EARTH. See note on Acts
9:7, where the apparent discrepancy between the two accounts is
discussed.
I HEARD A VOICE SPEAKING UNTO ME, AND SAYING IN THE...
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_Paul's Defence of Christianity before King Agrippa, his Sister, and
the Procurator Festus,_ 1-23.
This famous _apologia_ of St. Paul consists of four divisions. The
first, Acts 26:2-3, consists of a...
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WHEN WE WERE ALL FALLEN
(παντων καταπεσοντων ημων). Genitive absolute
with second aorist active participle of καταπιπτω. In the
Hebrew language (τη Εβραιδ διαλεκτω). Natural addition
here, for Paul...
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HEARD
(_ See Scofield) - (Acts 9:7). _...
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Acts 26
St. Paul's Defence before Agrippa.
Observe:
I. What is the central truth of the Christian system. It is a very
suggestive fact that Festus had got hold of the kernel of the whole
subject, as...
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Acts 26:1. _Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak
for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for
himself:_
I do not suppose Agrippa imagined that Paul would take...
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Three times we have in Holy Writ a graphic report of the conversion of
Paul. This may be accounted for partly from its being one of the most
remarkable events of early sacred history, Paul having had...
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CONTENTS: Paul's defense before Agrippa.
CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Agrippa, Satan, Festus, Bernice, Caesar.
CONCLUSION: When God's servant is given a chance to speak for himself,
it is well if h...
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Acts 26:1. _Then Paul stretched forth the hand,_ the usual signal to
gain attention; it indicates presence of mind in the speaker, and that
his auditory is large. Though the notice was short, the cour...
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IT WAS FOR THIS PURPOSE. He had gone to Damascus with the idea of
trying to crush the Christian movement. This is the third time he
tells about his converting to Christ. See Acts 9:1-9 and notes. Here...
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_Whereupon as I went to Damascus._
THE CONVERSION OF SAUL OF TARSUS
I. His character before his conversion.
1. He was a moral man (Philippians 3:6). Yet he needed conversion. The
necessity of conve...
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_Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for
thyself._
PAUL BEFORE AGRIPPA
Here is all that Christianity ever asked for: an opportunity to speak
for itself; and its answer is the one...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 26:14 THE HEBREW LANGUAGE most likely refers to
Aramaic (see esv footnote). TO KICK AGAINST THE GOADS is a proverbial
statement the Romans probably knew. It means that one ca
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 26:9. Commences the second part of Paul’s apology. Paul would
not despair of converting his countrymen from doubt to belief, since
he himself had undergone a similar mental rev...
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EXPOSITION
ACTS 26:1
And for _then, _A.V.; _his _for _the, _A.V.; _made his _defense_ _for
_answered for himself, _A.V. AGRIPPA SAID. It was by the courtesy of
Festus that Agrippa thus took the chief...
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Let's open our Bibles to the twenty-sixth chapter of Acts.
Paul was rescued by Lysias, the captain of the Roman guard from the
mob that was attempting to beat him to death in Jerusalem on the
temple m...
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1 Corinthians 10:22; Acts 21:40; Acts 22:2; Acts 22:7; Acts 9:4;...
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It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Or, goads. The sharp
goad carried in the ploughman's hand, against which the oxen kick on
being pricked. The metaphor, though not found in Jewish writin...
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In the Hebrew tongue — St. Paul was not now speaking in Hebrew: when
he was, Acts 23:7, he did not add, In the Hebrew tongue. Christ used
this tongue both on earth and from heaven....