ACTS 22:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.”
'and I saw Him saying to me, Make haste, and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about Me' — the risen Jesus warns Paul that Jerusalem rejects his testimony; the city that killed Jesus will reject his witness to Jesus. The urgency ('make haste') anticipates the danger ahead.
Church Fathers on Acts 22:18
See how he thrusts himself (into danger), I came, he says, after that vision, to Jerusalem. I was in a trance, etc. Again, this is without witness: but observe, the witness follows from the result. He said, They will not receive your testimony: they did not receive it. And yet from calculations of reason the surmise should have been this, that they would assuredly receive him. For I was the man that made war upon the Christians: so that they ought to have received him. Here…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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