For you have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
: "It is first necessary that you shows us who this Paul was,-both what he was before he was an apostle, and how he became an apostle"-so very great is the use which they make of him in respect of other questions also. It is true that he tells us himself that he was a persecutor before he became an apostle,
