ACTS 22:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles.”
'And He said to me, Go! For I will send you far away to the Gentiles' — the risen Jesus's command overrides Paul's protest; he will not be a missionary to the Jews (in Jerusalem) but to the nations. This mission to Gentiles is given not by the Jerusalem church but by the ascended Christ.
Church Fathers on Acts 22:21
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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