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Act 9:5. Τίς εἶ; who art thou?) Conscience itself would readily say, that it is Jesus.-ἐγὼ, I) The very One whom thou persecutest am I, Jesus. [I Jesus am the very One whom, etc.]-ὃν σὺ διώκεις, whom thou persecutest) The verb is repeated, with the emphatic pronoun σὺ, thou. This very verb Saul, when once stricken with terror, often from time to time brought back to his memory. In conversion, the will of a man is broken and melted: the Divine will is taken up [as the ruling principle henceforth]: ch. Act 16:30. As to the efficacy of such terror, comp. Exo 20:20; 2Sa 6:9; 1Ch 21:30. The most solid arguments for the truth of Christianity are afforded by the conversion of Saul, Act 9:21 : and he is an extraordinary example of the amplitude of free (gratuitous, undeserved) grace.