Some  have  said  that  it  was  a  deformity  of
personal  appearance !  Others  have  held  that
it  was  a  case  of  weak  eyes,  aggravated  and
made  chronic  by  the  blinding  light  that  shone
above  the  Damascus  road!    Others,  again,


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have  supposed  that  it  was  an  impediment  in
his  speech  which  greatly  hindered  his  public
work!  Yet  others  have  held  that  it  was  a
tendency  to  epilepsy  which  kept  the  busy
apostle  in  constant  fear!  And  still  others
have  held  that  the  energetic  missionary  was
subject  to  nervous  prostration— in  which
case  he  would  surely  have  many  modern  sym-
pathizers !

This  list  by  no  means  exhausts  the  sup-
positions that  have  been  brought  forward.
