Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Acts 26:14
In the Hebrew language. This fact that he here states is
remarkable. Bengal says:
``The Hebrew tongue, Christ's language when on earth; his
language, too, when he spoke from heaven.'
It was in the Aramaic, a Hebrew dialect, that the Savior taught when on
earth, and it is a significant circumstance that Paul heard his voice
in the same tongue to which Peter, James and John had listened. Not
only is this true, but critics hold that the Hebraisms are so prominent
in the Book of Revelation as to indicate that the revelations there
recorded were made in Hebrew, and afterward translated by John into
Greek. See Howson on "Acts", p. 546.
It is hard for thee to kick against the goad. The proverb is here
added (Acts 9:5).
Acts 26:12-14
As I went to Damascus. Compare Acts 9:1-2. This is the third
account of Paul's conversion, the first being in Acts 9:3-18, and
the second in Acts 22:4-16. There are a few new details given here:
(1) The over-powering glory of the Lord is specially dwelt upon here;
(2) we are here told that the voice heard was in the "Hebrew language"
(he was now speaking Greek to King Agrippa).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Acts 9:5
Acts 22:7
Acts 26:1
Acts 26:12-14
Acts 26:14
Galatians 1:12
2 Timothy 4:17
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