“And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.”
'But it happened that as I was on my way, approaching Damascus about midday, a very bright light suddenly flashed from heaven all around me' — Paul's conversion account (the third version in Acts) is introduced with apocalyptic imagery: the noon-day light exceeds the sun's brightness, suggesting divine epiphany. The sudden flash (periasstrapto) illuminates both Paul's eyes and his mind.
Church Fathers on Acts 22:6
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as you all are this day. Acts 22:3 I am a man, he says, which am a Jew: which thing they liked most of all to hear; born in Tarsus, a city of Cilicia. That they may not again think him to be of another nation, he adds his religion: but brought up in this city.…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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