“And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?”
'And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?' — the doubled name 'Saul, Saul' echoes God's calls to Abraham and Moses, marking this as a vocational commissioning. The voice identifies 'me' with the persecuted Way, establishing that Christ and the church are mystically one.
Church Fathers on Acts 22:7
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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