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

than women, in Galatians 1, he says, "I persecuted the Church of God beyond measure." Likewise, in the first to the Corinthians 15, "I am not worthy to be called an Apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God." In Philippians 3, regarding zeal, he says he was "persecuting the Church of God." In the first to Timothy, chapter 1, "I was previously a blasphemer, a persecutor, and injurious."

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However, he put aside this disease of the mind and bitterness of character soon after his conversion, in which, contrary to expectation and his own merit, all things happened to him in a most happy, miraculous, and stupendous way, Acts 9. Before his conversion, you would have called him a wolf and a destroyer of the Lord's flock; but at his conversion, he became a sheep who willingly submits himself to God, to such an extent that he asks, "Lord, what do you want me to do?" Hence, in the first to