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How much evil (hosa kaka). How many evil things. Saul’s reputation (Act 26:10) as a persecutor had preceded him.
To thy saints (tois hagiois). Dative of disadvantage. “Used here for the first time as a name for the Christians” (Knowling), but it came to be the common and normal (Hackett) term for followers of Christ (Act 9:32, Act 9:41; Act 26:10; 1Co 1:2, etc.). This common word is from to hagos, religious awe or reverence and is applied to God’s name (Luk 1:49), God’s temple (Mat 24:15), God’s people as set apart for God (Luk 1:70; Luk 2:23; Rom 1:7, etc.). Ananias in his ignorance saw in Saul only the man with an evil reputation while Jesus saw in Saul the man transformed by grace to be a messenger of mercy.