thereafter believe on him unto eternal life” (1 Tim. 1:16). If Christ could save a sinner like Saul, he felt that no one else need despair. Paul did not spare himself later by the reflection that he thought that he had done his duty to God in this matter. That is the excuse of every persecutor. It is just his way of serving God, to kill the heretics! Indeed, the conscientiousness of Saul in the matter merely added to his later remorse. So we know how Saul felt after he saw his persecution in its
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