Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 26:14

14 And when we were all [illegible: 1 letter]allen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

Whereby it appears, that Paul spake not now before Agrippa in the Hebrew Tongue, as he did before the Iews at Ierusalem, Chap. 21. ult.

This is a Proverb borrowed from the Greeks, as some think; but used in many Languages, thereby denoting any who endeavour such things as will ruine or detriment themselves; and so do all Persecutors: for they cannot harden themselves against God, his Truth, or Servants, and prosper, Iob 9.4. Not to speak of other pricks, there is never an Attribute in God, nor ever a faculty in their own Souls, but they kick against, and will be themselves at last pricked by.