Copyright Statement These files are a derivative of an electronic edition prepared from text scanned by Woodside Bible Fellowship. Copyright Statement These files are public domain and are a derivative of an electronic edition that is available on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library Website. Joseph Benson's Commentary. Bibliography Ellicott, Charles John. These men were on the fringes of the vision and did not receive the full impact.
New International Version The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless; they heard the sound but did not see anyone.
New Living Translation The men. Acts New International Version (NIV). 7 The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless; they heard the sound but did not see anyone. Saul's Conversion - Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord's disciples.
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If the word "stood" here is to be taken literally for the standing posture, it seems inconsistent with the apostle's own account in Actswhere he says they all "fell to the earth. In Acts we learn that all eventually fell to the earth under the compelling light. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.
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The Bible has wonderful lights and sounds, but nothing is more true than that they differently affect different men. Hearing a voice; the greater difficulty is, to reconcile these words with Actswhere it is expressly said, that these men did not hear the voice; but it is there added, of him that spake unto Saul; so that they might hear the voice of Saul, as it is said in this place, and wonder whom he spake unto, or what he spake about, they not hearing the voice or him that spake unto him, as in Acts it is said: and it seems very likely that they should not hear the voice of Christ, for we read not that any of them were converted; and being left in their infidelity, they were in some respects the more undeniable witnesses of a great part of that miracle.
American Tract Society. Acts ; but they had arisen before Saul, of their own accord.
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Study the bible online using commentary on Acts and more!. Acts The men traveling with Saul stood there speechless; they heard the sound but did not see anyone. Read verse in New International Version.
Nothing can be more opposite to the spirit of the gospel than such delusion. Bibliography Meyer, Heinrich. Charles Schribner's Sons.
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Bibliography Dunagan, Mark. I should not too hastily determine that this account has not come from Saul himselfon account of the above differences: they are no more than might arise in narrations at different times by the same person.
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Out of respect to him, to keep him company; or rather to assist him in his designs:. The Church at Peace. A voice fraught with deep meaning to some, is a mere empty sound to others; a light revealing the grandest realities to some, discloses nothing to others.
He wrote:. Bibliography Wesley, John. |
Men have the power of hearing and seeing with the soul. In this case, the statement tells us nothing about their posture, but merely reports their silence.
In Actsthey also are said to have fallen on the ground in terror. The initial shock which initially made them stand there rigid, eventually drove them to their knees.
And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless[ enneoi Greekor, as the best manuscripts write it, eneoi Greek ]. Luke says they heard the voice; Paul says "they heard not the voice of him that spoke to me.
And the men that journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but beholding no man. T but see Wisdom of Solomonand Tobit al.
Please check the reference to make sure it is correct. Observe here, The testimony or witnesses of Saul's conversion, to writ, the men that journeyed with him; it is probable that he had a considerable number of officers with him, to bring both men and women that professed Christianity bound to Jerusalem.