Acts 9:4 (WEB)
He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
Catechism · 2
Jesus Died Crucified
“Taking into account the fact that our sins affect Christ himself,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 25:45; Acts 9:4-5.
On the Third Day He Rose from the Dead
“The Apostle speaks here of the living tradition of the Resurrection which he had learned after his conversion at the gates of Damascus.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Acts 9:3-18.
Fathers and councils · 38
Athanasius of Alexandria
“…when Saul was persecuting the Church, in which was His impress and image, He said, as if He were Himself under persecution, ‘Saul, why persecutest thou Me?’” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Why should He not say, “from the face of my sins,” who said to Saul, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me,” who, however, being in Heaven, now suffered from no persecutors?” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“For both when He said, “I was an hungred, and ye gave Me meat,” He spoke on behalf of His members, not of Himself: and when He said, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?” the Head was crying on behalf of its members: and yet He did not say, “Why dost thou persecute My members?” but, “Why persecutest thou Me?”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“Who would not say that this city, in which we now are, was happily overthrown, if all those madmen, leaving their triflings, were to run together to the Church with contrite heart, and were to call upon God’s mercy for their past doings?” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“For one not travailing nor in pain would not say, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“The Head was in heaven, and was saying, “Why dost thou persecute Me?”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“Now Christ hath gone up on high, and sitteth at the right hand of the Father: but unless He were here also on the earth, He would not thence have cried, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“He is speaking that hath said, “Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of Mine, to Me ye have done it.”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“Himself then is the foundation, and corner stone: rising from the bottom: if indeed from the bottom: for the base of this foundation is the highest exaltation of the building: and as the support of bodily fabrics rests upon the ground, that of spiritual structures reposes on high.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“For it is not in the Head alone that they took place, since it is said to Saul too, “Why persecutest thou Me?” and Paul himself, as if placed as an elect member in the same body, saith, “That I may fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh.”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“…He cried from Heaven, “Saul, Saul,” not why persecutest thou My servants, nor why persecutest thou My saints, nor My disciples, but, “why persecutest thou Me?”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“Would the persecutor Saul have died, unless he were wounded from heaven; or would the preacher be raised up, unless by life given him from His blood?” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“The following words, “according to Thy mercy,” describe grace given gratuitously, not according to the merit of works.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“But although the body toileth on earth, it is not cut off from its Head; for the Head looketh down from above, and regardeth the body. …Whether therefore one or many sing; many men are one man, because it is unity; and Christ, as we have said, is One, and all Christians are members of Christ.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“…was grievously persecuting those who had become believers in Christ, did Christ call that man [by a voice] from heaven, and made him His disciple and apostle.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 1–30.
Read the whole comment“Nay; for what shall we make then of words like these: “He that despiseth you, despiseth me;” and, “Inasmuch as ye did it not unto the least of mine, ye did it not unto me;” and, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me,”—although it was His disciples that Saul was persecuting?” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“Dost thou not quake at the voice uttered by the Head from Heaven on behalf of His members, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou ME?”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“He gave to men, as the head to His own members: He Himself that gave, received in men, no doubt as in His own members; on account of which, namely, His own members, He cried from heaven, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4
Read the whole comment“But He with one word, calling to him out of heaven, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?” struck down the frantic one, raised him up whole, killed the persecutor, quickened the preacher.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“Hear the Son of Man from below, “Why persecutest thou Me?”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“Let Him now look on Saul, and mock him in his fury, and call from heaven, “‘Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?’” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“First, the very Voice of the Lord from heaven shows this; “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“Whence also was that Voice to Saul, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“If we were not He, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?” would not be true.” — editor's note: Acts. ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“Wherefore also, when Saul persecuted His body, that is, His believing people, He Himself saith from heaven, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“From that voice out of heaven, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“For if His members were not Himself, He would not have said, “Saul, why persecutest thou me?”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“Those which Saul desired to trample upon by persecution, when the Head cried out to him, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“For Christ is sitting above, at the right hand of the Father: but He is assuredly here also; and for that reason said also to Saul, as he was raging on the earth, “Why persecutest thou me?”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
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John Chrysostom
“See, for example, how He Himself, the insulted one, discourses with us, both in the Old Testament, and in the New; in the one saying, “O my people, what have I done unto thee?”in the other, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me.”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
Read the whole comment“Thus also Paul persecuted Him, in persecuting them that are His; wherefore too He said, “Why persecutest thou me?”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
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Jerome
“If Paul, that ravening wolf, that little Benjamin, is blinded in a trance, it is that he may receive his sight, and may be led, by the sudden horror of surrounding darkness, to call Him Lord Whom before he persecuted as man.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 3–18.
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Basil the Great
“In this sense too He once spoke of Himself as persecuted—“Saul, Saul,” He says, “why persecutest thou me?” on the occasion when Saul was hurrying to Damascus with a desire to imprison the disciples.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
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Tertullian
“That point excepted, he had sufficiently learnt and believed “the Nazarene” to be “the Lord, the Son of God.”” — editor's note: See Acts ix. 1–31.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…as being ourselves unworthy of such a visit; and when I say Peter, I am speaking of the man who walked upon the waves; or like Paul would be stricken in eyes, as he was before he was cleansed from the guilt of his persecution, when he conversed with Him Whom he was persecuting—or rather with a short flash of That…” — editor's note: Acts ix. 3–8.
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Catena Aurea on John
- OrigenCatena Aurea on John
“Now if it is true, as is here said, If God were your Father, ye would love Me; (Acts 9:4) the converse is true, If ye do not love Me, God is not your Father.” — the author cites it
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Gregory the Great
“And when he forthwith replied, Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do? it is added at once, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee there what thou must do (Acts ix. 4, &c.; xxii. 8, &c.).” — the author cites it
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Ephrem the Syrian
“For neither threats nor words of terror were heard by Paul, but weak words not able to avenge themselves: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?” — editor's note: Acts ix. 4.
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Cross-references · 20
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.35.
Cited together in Catechism §598.
Cited together in Catechism §598.
Cited together in Catechism §598.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.35.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.35.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.35.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 73.
Cited together in Origen on John 8:41–43 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 73.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 73.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 73.
Cited together in Catechism §598.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 73.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 73.
Cited together in Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 73.
Cited together in Origen on John 8:41–43 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on John 8:41–43 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.35.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.35.