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Act_9:11-12. There is a “straight street,” according to Wilson, still in Damascus.[241] Comp. Hackett in loc., and Petermann, Reisen im Orient, I. p. 98.
Σαῦλον ὀνόματι ] Saul by name, Saul, as he is called. Comp. Xen. Anab. i. 4. 11 : πόλις … ΘΆΨΑΚΟς ὈΝΌΜΑΤΙ . Tob_6:10; 4Ma_5:3.
ἸΔΟῪ ΓᾺΡ … ἈΝΑΒΛΈΨῌ ] contains the reason of the intimation given: for, behold, he prays, is now therefore in the spiritual frame which is requisite for what thou art to do to him, and—he is prepared for thy very arrival to help him—he has seen in a vision a man, who came in and, etc.
Imposition of hands (comp. on Act_8:15) is here also the medium of communication of divine grace.
ἄνδρα ὀνόμ . ʼΑνανίαν ] This is put, and not the simple ΣΈ , to indicate that the person who appeared to Saul had been previously entirely unknown to him, and that only on occasion of this vision had he learned his name, Ananias.
[241] The house in which Paul is said to have dwelt is still pointed out. See also the Ausland, 1866, No. 24, p. 564.