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a confidence all the more marvellous and worthy of gratitude because Paul had before been
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He had been a blasphemer, for he had thought that he
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and he had been a persecutor for he had punished believers
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and
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That is ever the persecutor's aim;--to make those who differ from him speak evil of what they reverence but he abhors; to say they renounce what in their heart of hearts they believe. There is, therefore, thus far an ascending scale in the iniquity which the Apostle confesses. He not only blasphemed the Divine Name himself, but he endeavoured to compel others to do the same. The third word, although the English Version obscures the fact, continues the ascending scale of self-condemnation.
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Injurious does scant justice to the force of the Greek word used by the Apostle (ὑβριστής), although it is not easy to suggest a better rendering. The word is very common in classical authors, but in the New Testament occurs only here and in Rom. i. 30, where the A.V. translates it
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and the R.V.