26. With this Holy Spirit Paul also had been
filled after his calling by our Lord Jesus Christ. Let godly
Ananias come as a witness to what we say, he who in Damascus said to
him, The Lord, even Jesus who appeared to thee in the way which thou
camest, hath sent me, that thou mayest receive thy sight, and be filled
with the Holy Ghost Acts ix. 17.. And
straightway the Spirit’s mighty working changed the blindness of
Paul’s eyes into newness of sight; and having vouchsafed His seal
unto his soul, made him a chosen vessel to bear the Name
of the Lord who had appeared to him, before kings and the children
of Israel, and rendered the former persecutor an ambassador and
good servant,—one, who from Jerusalem, and even unto
Illyricum, fully preached the Gospel Rom. xv. 19.,
and instructed even imperial Rome, and carried the earnestness of his
preaching as far as Spain, undergoing conflicts innumerable, and
performing signs and wonders. Of him for the present
enough.