[10.2] Acts ix. 11; xxi. 39; xxii. 3.
[10.3] In the Epistle to Philemon, written about the year 61, he calls himself an “old man” (v. 9); Acts vii. 57, he calls himself a young man.
[10.4] In the same way that those named “Jesus” often called themselves “Jason;” the “Josephs,” “Hegesippe;” the “Eliacim,” “Alcime,” etc. St. Jerome (De Viris Ill. 5) supposes Paul took his name from the proconsul Sergius Paulus (Acts xiii. 9). Such an explanation seems hardly admissible. If the Acts only give to Saul the name of “Paul,” after his relations with that personage, that would argue that the supposed conversion of Sergius was the first important act of Paul as apostle of the Gentiles.
[10.5] Acts xiii. 9, and following. The closing phrases of all the Epistles; II. Peter iii. 15.
[10.6] The Ebionite calumnies (Epiphan. Adv. hær. xxx. 16, 25) should not be seriously taken.
[10.7] St. Jerome, loc. cit. Inadmissible as the present St. Jerome, though this tradition appears to have some foundation.
[10.8] Rom. xi. 1; Phil. iii. 5.
[10.9] Acts xxii. 28.
[10.10] Acts xxiii. 6.
[10.11] Phil. iii. 5; Acts xxvi. 5.