Atti 26:11

11 E spesse volte, per tutte le sinagoghe, con pene li costrinsi a bestemmiare; ed infuriato oltre modo contro a loro, li perseguitai fin nelle città straniere.

Atti 26:11 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 26:11

And I punished them oft in every synagogue
In Jerusalem, where there were many; (See Gill on Acts 24:12); by beating and scourging them there, as the manner was; see ( Matthew 10:17 ) .

and compelled them to blaspheme;
the Lord Jesus Christ, both to deny him to be the Messiah, and to call him accursed; as the Jews and Heathens obliged some professors of Christianity to do, who were only nominal ones, and had not grace and strength to stand against their threatenings, and to endure their persecutions:

and being exceeding mad against them;
full of malice, envy, and hatred:

I persecuted them even to strange cities;
particularly Damascus; and of his journey thither, he gives an account in the following verse; or through the violence of his persecution he obliged them to fly to strange cities, where they were foreigners and strangers; though he himself might not follow them there, since we do not read of his going anywhere but to Damascus; whereas they that were scattered by the persecution, in which he was concerned, travelled as far as Phenice, Cyprus, and Antioch, ( Acts 9:19 ) . The phrase may be rendered, "even to cities without"; i.e. without the land of Israel: frequent mention is made in Jewish writings of such and such cities being (Ural huwx) , "without the land".

Atti 26:11 In-Context

9 Ora dunque, quant’è a me, ben avea pensato che mi conveniva far molte cose contro al nome di Gesù il Nazareo.

10 Il che eziandio feci in Gerusalemme; ed avendone ricevuta la podestà da’ principali sacerdoti, io serrai nelle prigioni molti de’ santi; e, quando erano fatti morire, io vi diedi la mia voce.

11 E spesse volte, per tutte le sinagoghe, con pene li costrinsi a bestemmiare; ed infuriato oltre modo contro a loro, li perseguitai fin nelle città straniere.

12 Il che facendo, come io andava eziandio in Damasco, con la podestà, e commissione da parte de’ principali sacerdoti, io vidi, o re, per lo cammino, di mezzo giorno,

13 una luce maggiore dello splendor del sole, la quale dal cielo lampeggiò intorno a me, ed a coloro che facevano il viaggio meco.