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But Saul (also known as Paul),[a] filled with the Holy Spirit,[b] stared straight[c] at him 10 and said, “You who are full of all deceit and all wrongdoing,[d] you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness—will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 13:9 sn A parenthetical note by the author.
  2. Acts 13:9 sn This qualifying clause in the narrative indicates who represented God in the dispute.
  3. Acts 13:9 tn Or “gazed intently.”
  4. Acts 13:10 tn Or “unscrupulousness.”
  5. Acts 13:10 sn “You who…paths of the Lord?” This rebuke is like ones from the OT prophets: Jer 5:27; Gen 32:11; Prov 10:7; Hos 14:9. Five separate remarks indicate the magician’s failings. The closing rhetorical question of v. 10 (“will you not stop…?”) shows how opposed he is to the way of God.