<p>9:1 <i>But Saul, y<em>et breathing threats and slaughter </em></i><i>against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest</i>- Saul here is portrayed as a beast, perhaps the personal epitome of the beast system of Revelation which persecuted God's people during the first century. AV is incorrect in rendering &quot;breathing <em>out</em>&quot;; the Greek here means to inhale, not to exhale. The idea is that he breathed in a mental atmosphere of threats and murder. This is a helpful way of describing our mindset- we can breathe in our own words and wrong intentions, as Saul did here. The &quot;yet&quot; suggests that his fury at Stephen's arguments continued... but the depth of his hurt was really the depth to which his conscience had been prodded by the goads of the risen Christ.</p><p>The Damascus road experience surfaces time and again in Paul&rsquo;s writing and self-consciousness (Rom. 10:2-4; 1 Cor. 9:1,16,17; 15:8-10; 2 Cor. 3:4-4:6; 5:16; Eph. 3:1-13; Phil. 3:4-11; Col. 1:23-29). &nbsp;It is no mere pointless repetition that results in Luke recording Paul&rsquo;s conversion three times in Acts (Acts 9,22,26). Special attention is being paid to his conversion, because he is being set up as the model of all Christian conversion.</p>