Acts 9:7

7. Hearing a voice The Greek word for voice, like our word utterance, may signify either the vocal sound or the articulate words. So a man partially deaf would be said, popularly but truly, to hear and not to hear the same utterance. It is here said they heard, and in Acts 22:9, it is said they heard not, the utterance.

Seeing no man They saw not, as Saul did, the speaker. How in the midst of that luminous splendour the form of Jesus loomed forth upon Saul’s sight whether standing on the earth, or in the space exalted above him we know not. We suppose the latter.

And thus to Paul, as to none of the other apostles, Jesus appeared, never in his humble terrene flesh, but solely in his glorification. Thenceforward, consequently, he was troubled with no low Ebionite conceptions of Jesus, but ever thought of him, purely, with intense self-consecration, as the exalted and divine Master of his own soul and body.

Yet Saul’s sight of Jesus could have been but for a moment. By its power he forthwith fell to the earth, (Acts 9:4,) and when he arose from the earth (Acts 9:8) he saw no man, being blinded by the glory that prostrated him.