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Ultimately, "kick against the goads" is a metaphor. Goads were used to prod cattle and livestock forward, and they would frequently kick back at them, only causing themselves more injury. The thought is that Paul has been kicking against God's "goading," and God has been trying to urge him to go in a certain direction.
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1) In Acts 26:14, in Paul's conversion story, Christ tells Paul that it hurts him to kick against the goads. Although the idea of the goad for oxen is commmon in the Jewish world, Paul (or Luke [author of 'Acts']) seems to be adopting the Greek proverb here;
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Blogs > Spontaneous4you > Spontaneous4you > KICKING AGAINST THE GOAD ... You see oxen are yoked or chained up and then they have a goad so they can't kick out.A goad is a spiked apparatus that keeps them from kicking out,so they can't get away and become unchained and run off. So therefore the oxen if they try to kick out...
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Leave a Reply ... If the animal is obstinate, it kicks against the goad, injuring and infuriating itself with the wounds it receives. This is a vivid picture of a man wounded and tortured by compunctions of conscience.
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52 From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. ... 53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”...
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Those who resist the authority of God, whether directly, as Paul did, or indirectly to His delegated authority, will find themselves kicking against the goad in God’s hands. More often than not this is a painful experience, and a lesson many of us learn the hard way.
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Question: What does "kick against the pricks" mean? ... You see, if the ox refused the command indicated by the farmer, the goad would be used to jab or prick the ox. Sometimes the ox would refuse this incentive by kicking out at the prick. As result, the prick would be driven deeper into the flesh of the rebellious animal.
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International Standard Version (©2008); "All of us fell to the ground, and I heard a voice asking me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me? It is hurting you to keep on kicking against the cattle prods.' ... It is hard for thee to kick against the goad. The proverb is here added (Ac 9:5).
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Kicking Against the Pricks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kicking Against the Pricks is the third album released by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. First released in 1986, the album is a collection of cover versions. The title refers to a passage from the Bi...
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