hard for you to kick the stakes

[Stephen Silver]

Acts 9:5 & 26:14

Shaul! Shaul! Why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick the stakes. (pricks in some translations)

Is "kick the stakes" an Aramaic idiom?
If so please explain.

Shlama

Shlama:
The Aramaic word at the end of Acts 9:4, "l'aqsa" means cattle prod. Search Acts 9 on the Peshitta Tool at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.dukhrana.com">http://www.dukhrana.com</a><!-- m -->.

"It is hard for you to kick against the cattle-prod".

Shlama,
Stephen Silver
Dukhrana Biblical Research
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