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Delivering thee (exairoumenos se). Present middle participle of exaireō, old verb and usually so rendered, but the old Greek also uses it for “choose” as also in lxx (Isaiah 48:10). The papyri give examples of both meanings and either makes good sense here. God was continually rescuing Paul “out of the hands of Jews and Gentiles and Paul was a chosen vessel” (Act 9:15). Modern scholars are also divided.