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Acts 26:14

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26:14 When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, 1  ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself 2  by kicking against the goads.’ 3 

1 tn Grk “in the Hebrew language.” See Acts 22:7 and 9:4.

2 tn Grk “It is hard for you.”

3 tn “Goads” are pointed sticks used to direct a draft animal (an idiom for stubborn resistance). See BDAG 539-40 s.v. κέντρον 2.

sn Sayings which contain the imagery used here (kicking against the goads) were also found in Greek writings; see Pindar, Pythians 2.94-96; Euripides, Bacchae 795.



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