[60:1] Acts xxvi. 10. [Greek:  psephon].  See Alford on Acts xxvi. 10, and Acts viii. 1.  See also “The Life and Epistles of St Paul” by Conybeare and Howson, i. 85.  Edit., London, 1852.  Paul says that “all the Jews” knew his manner of life from his youth—­a declaration from which we may infer that he was a person of note.  See Acts xxvi. 4.  There is a tradition that he aspired to be the son-in-law of the high priest.  Epiphanius, “Ad Haer.,” 1, 2, Sec. 16 and Sec. 25.

[60:2] Acts ix. 2, and xxii. 5.

[60:3] Acts ix. 3-21.

[60:4] Gal. i. 17, 18.

[60:5] This date may be established thus:—­Stephen, as has been shewn, was martyred A.D. 34.  See note, p. 55 of this chapter.  Paul seems to have been converted in the same year, and therefore, if he returned to Damascus three years afterwards, he must have been in that city in A.D. 37.  It would appear, from another source of evidence, that this is the true date.  The Emperor Tiberius died A.D. 37, and Aretas immediately afterwards seems to have obtained possession of Damascus.  He was in possession of it when Paul was now there.  See 2 Cor. xi. 32, 33.  It is probable that he remained master of the place only a very short time.

[60:6] Gal. i. 12.

[60:7] 2 Cor. xi. 5.

[61:1] Acts ix. 17, 18.

[61:2] Acts xiii. 1, 2.

[61:3] Simeon or Niger, according to Epiphanius, was one of the Seventy.  “Haeres,” 20, sec. 4.  Luke, the writer of the Book of the Acts, is said to have been one of the Seventy, and some have asserted that he is the same as Lucius of Cyrene, mentioned Acts xiii. 1.

[61:4] Ananias, by whom he was baptized, was, according to the Greek martyrologies, one of the Seventy.  See Burton’s “Lectures,” i. 88, note.  It is evident that Ananias was a person of note among the Christians of Damascus.

[62:1] Acts ix. 23.

[62:2] See Josephus’ “Antiquities,” xviii. 5.

[62:3] See Burton’s “Lectures,” i. 116, 117.

[62:4] 2 Cor. xi. 32, 33.

[62:5] Acts ix. 26, 27.

[62:6] This statement rests on the authority of a monk of Cyprus, named Alexander, a comparatively late writer.  See Burton’s “Lectures,” i. 56, note.

[62:7] Acts xxii. 21.

[63:1] Acts ix. 29, 30.

[63:2] Gal. i. 21.

[63:3] Acts xv. 23, 41.

[63:4] Acts xi. 25, 26.

[64:1] Griesbach, Lachmann, Alford, and other critics of great note, here prefer [Greek:  Hellenas] to [Greek:  Hellenistas], but the common rending is better supported by the authority of manuscripts, and more in accordance with Acts xiv. 27, where Paul and Barnabas are represented, long afterwards, as declaring to the Church of Antioch how God “had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.”  See an excellent vindication of the textus receptus in the Journal of Sacred Literature for January 1857, No.  VIII., p. 285, by the Rev. W. Kay, M.A., Principal of Bishop’s College, Calcutta.