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To: cloudmountain
St. Paul was born a Roman citizen. In Acts he says this to a Roman official who had purchased citizenship.

Scott Hahn joined the Catholic Church a few years before my husband and I did. (We have more children, though.) His interpretations are always interesting, although sometimes I prefer another way of looking at a passage.

22 posted on 04/05/2012 10:25:29 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Read "Radical Son" by David Horowitz to understand the Left.)
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To: Tax-chick
St Paul's father was a Roman citizen, therefore Paul was.

From Catholic Answers:
Saul of Tarsus was born a Jew, "circumcised on the eight day, of the race of Israel, or the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrew parentage, in observance of the law a Pharisee" (Phil 3:5). The Hebrew name given him by his parents was Saul, but, because his father was a Roman citizen (and therefore Saul inherited Roman citizenship), Saul also had the Latin name Paul (Acts 16:37, 22:25-28), the custom of dual names being common in those days. Since he grew up in a strict Pharisee environment, the name Saul was by far the more appropriate name to go by. But after his conversion Saul determined to bring the gospel to the Gentiles, so he dusted off his Roman name and became known as Paul, a name Gentiles were accustomed to.

23 posted on 04/05/2012 10:41:01 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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