472, A SHORT TIES OF SCRIPTURE HIStORT. 5. Q. What effect had this upon Saul ? A. He trembled and cried out, " Lord, what wilt thou have me to do ?" And the Lord bid him, arise, and go to the city of Damascus, and there he should be toldhis duty ; Verse 6. 6. Q. Did Saul obey this divine vision ? A. He rose from the earth, and found that he was struck blind, and he was ledby the hand into Damascus, where he was three days without sight and without food, and engaged much in prayer; Verses 8 -11. 7. Q. Who was sent to teach him bis duty there ? A. Ananias a disciple was ordered by the Lord in a vision to go to him in the house where he lodged, and to restore his eye-sight ; Verses 11, 12. and to tell him what honour and duty God had appointed for him. 8. Q. Did Ananias go willingly on this errand ? A. He was at first afraid to go, because he had heard of his cruel per- secution of the christians ; but the Lord assured him that Saul would receive him, because he had given Saul also a vision, of one Ananias, to prepare him for his coming ; Verses 10-17. 9. Q. How did Saul recover his sight ? A. Ananias laid his hands upon him, and he received his sight, and was filled with the Holy. Ghost, and was baptized; Verses 17, 18. 10. Q. Who appointed Saul at first to be a preacher ? A. The Lord Jesus ordered Ananias to tell him, that God had cho- sen him to know his will, to see Jesus, and to be a witness for Christ to the world ; Acts xxii. 14-16. And some time after that, Christ himself in another vision sent him to preach to the heathen nations ; Verse 21. Note here, in St. Paul's rehearsal of this matter to Agrip- pa ; Acts xxvi. 16-20. Christ himself is represented as giving St. Paul his first commission from heaven to the Gentiles at this time yet-it has been questioned whether the apostle does not in this rehearsal join together all that Christ said to him both in his first vision upon the road to Damascus, and his second vision at Jerusalem in the temple, when he was more expressly sent to the Gentiles ; Acts xxii. 17, 18, 21. But this is too large a debate to be assumed here. 11. Q. How did Saul employ himself after this wonderful appearance ? A. He was a few days with the disciples at Da- mascus, and he soonpreached Christ in the synagogues, that he is tite Son of God, to the amazement of them that heard him ; Verses 19-22. 12. Q. How came he to learn and preach the gospel so soon ?. -A. It is generally supposed, that he was taught the gos- pel by Jesus Christ himself in three days of his blindness, for he declares he learned it not from men ; Gal, i. 1, 11 -16. 13. Q. Wheredid he preach the gospel when-he went from. Damascus ? A. Ín Arabia, and he returned again to Dames- cus, and did not go up to the apostles at Jerusalem till three sears after ; Gal. i. 17, 18.
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