Verse 5
5. The high priest Who may have now been present.
The estate of the elders The presbyterium or eldership; the Sanhedrin. So that the intensity of his original Judaism was beyond all question. Why had all this been changed? The narrative of his conversion now answers.
By the vision of Jehovah repeatedly appearing, (as all admitted,) Abraham had been called (Genesis 17:1) and Moses commissioned, (Exodus 3:1.) So by the repeated vision of Jehovah-Jesus. Saul had been both called and commissioned. This Jesus, like the Jehovah of old, appears in the splendour of the Shekinah; he is Lord, the Just One, the pronouncer of the I will send thee. For the discrepancies between this and the other two narratives, see our note on Acts 9:4-8.
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