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The Concersion of St Paul: its Nature, Antecedents and Consequences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

H. G. Wood
H. G. Wood
Affiliation:
Birmingham
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The character of Paul's conversion as it appeared to the convert is clear from his references in his letters. He experienced a sudden conversion which was effected, or at least accompanied, by a vision of the risen Christ, or, as he might have preferred to say, by an encounter with Jesus, alive, exalted and glorified. He had no doubt that the initiative was God's initiative. ‘God revealed His Son in my case’: in view of this phrase in Gal. i. 16, Goguel would take the earlier reference in v. 12, where Paul claims to have been taught his gospel ‘through the revelation of Jesus Christ’ as meaning that Jesus Christ was the object of the revelation.

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Short Studies
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New Testament Studies , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , May 1955 , pp. 276 - 282
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1955

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page 276 note 1 Compare Luke's modest estimate of 4000 as followers of the Egyptian (Acts xxi. 38) with Josephus, , B.J. II. 261–3, where the wild figure of 30,000 is given.Google Scholar

page 277 note 1 The attempt of Johannes Weiss to deduce such contact from II Cor. v. 16 is, I think, a failure. The meaning of the phrase ‘knowing Christ after the flesh’ is uncertain, and the narrative in Acts of the event on the Damascus road does not imply a previous knowledge of Jesus. ‘Who art thou, Lord?’ makes against rather than for Weiss's contention.

page 278 note 1 Josephus, , Antiq. Bk. xx, c. ix, § 1.Google Scholar

page 278 note 2 Cf. Jesus of Nazareth, p. 390.Google Scholar

page 279 note 1 Nock, , op. cit. p. 74.Google Scholar

page 279 note 2 Rom. x. 4 (Mgr Knox's version).