Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 22:14

14 And he said , The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.

Nothing could please the people better than to hear God so stiled: For this they gloried in, above all things, that they and theirs had God to their Father, Iohn 8.41. And nothing could better suit St. Paul s purpose, who would not lie under that scandal of endeavouring an Apostacy from the Iewish Religion (for the Gospel which he preached, was but the substance and perfection of the Law); or that he served or worshipped any other God than the God of Abraham ▪

He hath taken thee, as by the hand, and by his wonderful Providence brought thee into that condition in which thou art.

Christ is the Holy One, spotless and without blemish; God's righteous servant, Isa. 53.11. But this is here the rather spoken, that he might convince them of their sin, in putting our Lord to Death: For tho he sweetned his speech to them in what he might, he would not flatter them to their destruction; Like a skilful Chyrurgeon, he would not heal too fast. Now Paul saw Christ with the Eye of his mind, it being enlightned to believe in him: And he saw him in his Journey also with the Eyes of his body. Some read, [non-Latin text not transcribed], not [non-Latin text not transcribed]. And then Ananias tells St. Paul, that he was sent to shew him that which was just and right in Gods sight; which he being blinded by his zeal for the Law, could not perceive.

Marginal references: Chap. 26.16.; Chap 3.14. and 7.52.