Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
desired . . . letters—of authorization.
to Damascus—the capital of Syria and the great highway between eastern and western Asia, about one hundred thirty miles northeast of Jerusalem; the most ancient city perhaps in the world, and lying in the center of a verdant and inexhaustible paradise. It abounded (as appears from JOSEPHUS, Wars of the Jews, 2.20,2) with Jews, and with Gentile proselytes to the Jewish faith. Thither the Gospel had penetrated; and Saul, flushed with past successes, undertakes to crush it out.
that if he found any of this way, whether men or women—Thrice are women specified as objects of his cruelty, as an aggravated feature of it (Acts 8:3; Acts 22:4; and here).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 9:2:
Isaiah 43:19
Jeremiah 10:2
Ezekiel 35:12-13
Amos 8:14
Acts 19:23
Acts 22:4
1 Peter 4:16
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