Isagoge ad lectionem epistolarum divi Pauli apostoli, qua compositionis oeconomia, et germana dispositio indicatur. Opusculum recens. Benedicto Aretio authore.

Saul.

to say Paul rather than Saul. Saul is undoubtedly Hebrew, and it sounds like postulatum requested/asked for, which name he undoubtedly received from his Hebrew parents at circumcision, just as we receive our names today at baptism; and his parents seem to have wanted to adorn him with an illustrious name, such as was magnificent in the tribe of Benjamin, because of the first king of Israel, who was of the same
Paul

name. The name Paul, however, is interpreted in various ways; some make it Hebrew, some Greek, some Latin.
Augustine on Psalm 72 and homily 71.

First of all, however, the opinion of Augustine pleases me, who contends that it is Latin and rightly derived from parvo small, that is, from moderate, for in ancient times people called small ones Pauli Pauli/little ones. Those who derive it from the Greeks interpret it as quiet, for this is what παῦλα pause/rest sounds like. Truly,