A.T. Robertson Commentary Acts 22:4

A.T. Robertson Commentary

Acts 22:4

1863–1934
Southern Baptist
A.T. Robertson
A.T. Robertson

A.T. Robertson Commentary

Acts 22:4

1863–1934
Southern Baptist
SCRIPTURE

"and I persecuted this Way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women." — Acts 22:4 (ASV)

And I (ος).

I who , literally.

This Way (ταυτην την οδον). The very term used for Christianity by Luke concerning Paul's persecution (9:2), which see. Here it "avoids any irritating name for the Christian body" (Furneaux) by using this Jewish terminology.

Unto the death (αχρ θανατου). Unto death, actual death of many as 26:10 shows.

Both men and women (ανδρας τε κα γυναικας). Paul felt ashamed of this fact and it was undoubtedly in his mind when he pictured his former state as "a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious (1 Timothy 1:13), the first of sinners" (1 Timothy 1:15). But it showed the lengths to which Paul went in his zeal for Judaism.