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Saul and Paul

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 2, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 33, No. 10.

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Saul and Paul.

BRO. SMITH. Why was Saul of Tarsus after his conversion called Paul? J. H. C.
A number of conjectural reasons are assigned in Kitto for this change. That which is offered as the most probable is the one given by Beza, Grotius, Doddridge, &c., that the Romans and Greeks were in the habit of softening the Hebrew names in pronunciation, and accommodating their form to that of the Latin or Greek. Hence we have Jason for Jesus, Silvanus for Silas, Pollio for Hillel, &c. On the same ground they are supposed to have substituted Paul for Saul, and that the apostle in his intercourse with them adopted the change.