“And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:”
As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him—the divine appearance uses the same vocabulary as the transfiguration and Stephen's vision, marking this as a genuine theophany. The light 'around him' (periēstrapto) suggests complete, inescapable divine presence that swallows Saul's entire world. This mirrors the eschatological light of God's glory invading linear time.
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