9For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
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Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. …
Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. …
As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.
I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)It is the apostle’s business in this chapter to assert and establish the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, which some of the Corinthians flatly denied, 1 Cor. 15:12. Whether they turned this doctrine into allegory, as did Hymeneus and Philetus, by saying it was already past (2 Tim. 2:17), and several of the ancient heretics, by making it mean no more than a changing of their course of life…
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