'Many a time I went from one synagogue to another to have them punished, and I tried to force them to blaspheme. Being furiously enraged at them, I even hunted them down in foreign cities. - Paul's recital intensifies: 'from one synagogue to another' (kata pasas tas synagōgas, kata pasas tas synagōgas-'throughout all the synagogues'), he pursued believers, trying to 'force them to blaspheme' (blasphēmeō, blasphēmeō-'speak against the faith'). His rage was 'furious' (perissos, perissos-'exceedingly'), driving him even to 'foreign cities' (epi tas exō poleis, epi tas exō poleis). His pursuit of Christians became a crusade of cosmic significance-until his vision stopped him.

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