And Saul, yet breathing out[ἐμπνέων]—lit., ‘inwardly breathing,’ that is, ‘heaving with’ threatenings and slaughter—‘menace and murder.’ The emphatic “yet” [ἔτι] is intended to note the remarkable fact, that up to this moment his blind persecuting rage against the disciples of the Lord burned as fiercely as ever. In the teeth of this, Neander and Olshausen picture him ‘deeply impressed with Stephen’s joyful faith, remembering passages of the Old Testament confirmatory of the Messiahship of Jesus,