The Light That Outblazed the Syrian Noon

Paul's conversion was no gradual erosion of conviction, no slow-dawning misgiving that had been working since Stephen's martyrdom. Such a theory stands 'clean against facts.' A man does not persecute unto death those he secretly believes in. Paul himself knew his own mind better than critics nineteen centuries distant: he 'set out from Jerusalem a bitter hater of the convicted impostor Jesus, and stumbled into Damascus a convinced disciple because he had seen and heard Him.'…