And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
Indeed, when I hear that this man was chosen by the Lord after He had attained His rest in heaven, I feel that a kind of improvidence is imputable to Christ, for not knowing before that this man was necessary to Him; and because He thought that he must be added to the apostolic body in the way of a fortuitous encounter
