Paul's conversion
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
changed into a preacher from a persecutor · conversion from persecutor into apostle · he became an apostle from a persecutor
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
Paul's transformation from a persecutor of the church into an apostle, treated as fulfillment of prophecy and confirmed by the historical record of Acts.
Thereupon, running through the order of his own conversion from persecutor into apostle, he confirms the scripture of the Acts of the Apostles, in which the very subject of this epistle is also recognised:
For among those figures and prophetic blessings of Jacob upon his sons, when he had said to Benjamin, Benjamin, he says, a ravening wolf shall feed in the morning, and at evening shall give food — for he foresaw that Paul would arise from the tribe of Benjamin, a ravening wolf feeding in the morning, that is, in his early age laying waste the flock of the Lord as a persecutor of the churches, and …
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum
Paul's transformation from persecutor of the Church to apostle and preacher.
But, being changed into a preacher from a persecutor, he is led to the brethren by brethren, as one of the brethren, and to those by those who had received their faith from the apostles.