And I persecuted this way unto the death
That is, the Christian religion, and the professors of it; whom
the apostle breathed out threatenings and slaughter against,
haled out of their houses, and committed to prison; consented to
their death, as he did to Stephen's; and whenever it was put to
the vote, whether they should die or not, he gave his voice
against them; so that he was a most bitter enemy, and an
implacable persecutor of them; which shows how very averse he was
to this way, and how great his prejudices were against it;
wherefore it must be a work of divine power, and there must be
the singular hand of God in it, to reconcile him to it, and cause
him to embrace and profess it:
binding and delivering into prisons, both men and
women:
see ( Acts 8:3 )
( 9:2 ) .
