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Acts 26:16
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14 And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
15 So I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
16 But rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, ato make you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will yet reveal to you.  
17 I will deliver you from the Jewish people, as well as from the Gentiles, ato whom I now send you,  
18 ato open their eyes, in order bto turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, cthat they may receive forgiveness of sins and dan inheritance among those who are esanctified by faith in Me.’  

Paul’s Post-Conversion Life

19 “Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,
20 but adeclared first to those in Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent, turn to God, and do bworks befitting repentance.  
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Acts 26:16

Arise and stand (anasthqi kai sthqi). "Emphatic assonance" (Page). Second aorist active imperative of compound verb (anisthmi) and simplex (isthmi). "Stand up and take a stand."

Have I appeared unto thee (wfqhn soi). First aorist passive indicative of oraw. See on Luke 22:43.

To appoint thee (proxeirisasqai se). See 3:30; Acts 22:14 for this verb.

Both of the things wherein thou hast seen me (wn te eidev me). The reading me (not in all MSS.) makes it the object of eidev (didst see) and wn is genitive of a (accusative of general reference) attracted to the case of the unexpressed antecedent toutwn. Paul is thus a personal eyewitness of the Risen Christ (Luke 1:1; I Corinthians 4:1; I Corinthians 9:1).

And of the things wherein I will appear unto thee (wn te ofqhsomai soi). Here again wn is genitive of the accusative (general reference) relative a attracted to the case of the antecedent toutwn or ekeinwn as before. But ofqhsomai is first future passive of oraw and cannot be treated as active or middle. Page takes it to mean "the visions in which I shall be seen by you," the passive form bringing out the agency of God. See those in Acts 18:9; Acts 23:11; II Corinthians 12:2. The passive voice, however, like apekriqhn and efobhqhn, did become sometimes transitive in the Koin‚ (Robertson, Grammar, p. 819).




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 26:16:

Luke 1:2
Acts 3:20
Acts 9:3
Acts 9:15
Acts 9:17
Acts 22:14
Acts 26:13
Galatians 1:1

 

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