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When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, `Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goad.`
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A Rebuke of Compassion
Jesus's words, "it is hard for you to kick against the goads," reveal His compassion. Commentators like Spurgeon note that Jesus's focus isn't on the harm done to Him, but on the self-inflicted pain Saul was causing himself. Like an ox injuring itself by kicking a sharp prod, Saul's resistance to God was only hurting himself. This shows that even in rebuke, Christ's heart is for the sinner's well-being.
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When we were all fallen (παντων καταπεσοντων ημων). Genitive absolute with second aorist active participle of καταπιπτω. In the He…
19th Century
Anglican
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.
Baptist
Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests. At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, …
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While Paul was trying to stamp out nascent Christianity, the encounter that changed his life took place. That Paul’s account of his Damascus Road c…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And when we were all fallen to the earth Saul, and the men that were with him, for fear of the divine Majesty, who b…
Presbyterian
Paul was made a Christian by Divine power; by a revelation of Christ both to him and in him; while he was in the full career of his sin. He was mad…
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