Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 26:17

17 Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee.

From this people of the Iews, so in some Copies it is expressed; howsoever by the Antithesis (and from the Gentiles) it is plainly to be understood: and God undertakes no less hereby, than to deliver Paul (and all his faithful Servants) from all evils and enemies. But how is this performed? and where is the Promise? St. Paul was sorely persecuted by the Iews, and at last put to death by the Gentiles. But so long as it would be a mercy, and a true deliverance to Paul, God wrought many such for him; and that, rather then fail, miraculously too; no Chains, no Iron Gates could detain him. When he had finished his course, and done the work he was sent for, it would not have been then a deliverance, to have been kept longer from his reward, and the prize he had ran for.