Eoghan
Puritan Board Senior
As I have been working my way through Acts I am becominmg increasingly curious when Saul becomes Paul?
I had some notion that it was at his conversion - nope!
The transition seems to come in Acts 13:9 when Luke "introduces" the name Paul and then refers to him thereafter as Paul. Why?
All the Epistles have "Paul" and Saul, after Acts 13:9 is only used when referring back to Saul's confrontation on the road to Damascus.
There is I believe a tradition of taking a new name at baptism amongst the early church (paedobaptists take note ) Is this implicit?
I had some notion that it was at his conversion - nope!
The transition seems to come in Acts 13:9 when Luke "introduces" the name Paul and then refers to him thereafter as Paul. Why?
All the Epistles have "Paul" and Saul, after Acts 13:9 is only used when referring back to Saul's confrontation on the road to Damascus.
There is I believe a tradition of taking a new name at baptism amongst the early church (paedobaptists take note ) Is this implicit?