2Co 11:31. Εὐλογητὸς, blessed) This increases the sacredness of the cath.-οἶδεν, knoweth) The persecution at Damascus was one of the first and greatest, and belonged particularly to this place; and Paul calls God to witness, for he could produce to the Corinthians no witness among men, concerning a matter which was known to few, and had happened long before: comp. Gal 1:20. Luke afterwards recorded it, Act 9:25. This religious preface increases even the credit of the circumstances, related in the following chapter.