John Gill's Exposition on Acts 8:3

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, etc.] Did evil to the saints, destroyed them that called upon the name of Christ, (<440913>Acts 9:13,21) and persecuted and wasted the church of God, as he himself says, (Gal 1:13) and now did Benjamin, of which tribe Saul was, ravine as a wolf, (<014927>Genesis 49:27) Entering into every house; where the saints dwelt: and haling men and women: in a violent manner, without any regard to age or sex: committed them to prison; delivered them up into the hands of the chief priests and magistrates, in order to be committed and sent to prison; this he himself confesses, (<442204>Acts 22:4, 26:10).

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