1. Officers were accused of maltreating prisoners.

2. By maltreating Christians, Saul was actually fighting against God, pursuing a course that could only harm himself. —Acts 26:14.

3. He says: “I will make those maltreating you eat their own flesh; and as with the sweet wine they will become drunk with their own blood.”

4. He has left his covert just like a maned young lion, for their land has become an object of astonishment because of the maltreating sword and because of his burning anger.”