Teks -- Acts 22:9 (NET)

22:9 Those who were with me saw the light, but did not understand the voice of the one who was speaking to me.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: Act 22:9 - But they heard not the voice

But they heard not the voice ( tēn de phōnēn ouk ēkousan ).

The accusative here may be used rather than the genitive as in Act 22:7to indicate that those with Paul did not understand what they heard (Act 9:7) just as they beheld the light (Act 22:9), but did not see Jesus (Act 9:7). The difference in cases allows this distinction, though it is not always observed as just noticed about Act 22:14; Act 26:14. The verb akouō is used in the sense of understand (Mar 4:33; 1Co 14:2). It is one of the evidences of the genuineness of this report of Paul’ s speech that Luke did not try to smooth out apparent discrepancies in details between the words of Paul and his own record already in ch. 9. The Textus Receptus adds in this verse: "And they became afraid"(kai emphoboi egenonto ). Clearly not genuine.

Vincent: Act 22:9 - Heard not

Heard not ( οὐκ ἤκουσαν )

The verb is to be taken in the sense of understood, as Mar 4:33; 1Co 14:2, which explains the apparent discrepancy with Act 9:7.

Wesley: Act 22:9 - They did not hear the voice

Distinctly; but only a confused noise.

JFB: Act 22:9-11 - they that were with me

(See on Act 9:7, &c.)

Clarke: Act 22:6-13 - As I made my journey, etc.

As I made my journey, etc. - See the whole of this account, and all the particular circumstances, considered at large in the notes on Act 9:1 (note), etc., and the observations at the conclusion of that chapter.

Calvin: Act 22:9 - They which were with me

9.They which were with me I showed in the other place, that there is no such disagreement in the words of Luke as there seemeth to be. Luke said there, that though Paul’s companions stood amazed, yet heard they a voice. − ⁵⁰² But in this place he saith, they heard not the voice of him which spake to Paul though they saw the light. Surely it is no absurd thing to say that they heard some obscure voice; yet so that they did not discern it as Paul himself, whom alone Christ meant to stay and tame with the reprehension. Therefore, they hear a voice, because a sound doth enter into their ears, so that they know that some speaketh from heaven; they hear not the voice of him that spake to Paul, because they understand not what Christ saith. Moreover, they see Paul compassed about with the light, but they see none which speaketh from heaven. −

TSK: Act 22:9 - saw // but

saw : Act 9:7; Dan 10:7

but : Joh 12:29, Joh 12:30

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Act 22:9

Of this; See Poole on "Act 9:7" . This may be added to what was formerly said, that the men who travelled with Paul may be said not to have heard the voice of him that spake, because they did not understand it, or obey it; they were not converted, as Paul was, by it; the Hebrew language putting hearing for obeying, as in many scriptures; and both St. Paul, who here spake, and Luke, who penned this history, understood exactly the proprieties of that tongue.

Haydock: Act 22:9 - Heard not the voice

Heard not the voice. To reconcile this with chap. ix. ver. 7. where it is said that they heard the voice; it may be answered that they heard a noise, and a voice, but heard it not distinctly, nor so as to understand the words. (Witham) ---

They heard not the voice of him who spoke to the apostle, but they heard the latter speak; (Acts ix. 7.) or perhaps they heard a noise, which they could not understand. They perhaps heard the voice of Paul answering, but not that of Christ complaining.

Gill: Act 22:9 - And they that were with me saw indeed the light // and were afraid // but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me

And they that were with me saw indeed the light,.... For it shone about them, as well as Saul:

and were afraid; the Alexandrian copy, the Vulgate Latin, and Syriac versions, have not this clause; but it stands in the Arabic and Ethiopic versions; the suddenness, greatness, and extraordinariness of the light surprised them, for it was even miraculous:

but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me: they heard the voice of Saul, but not the voice of Christ; at least they did not hear it so as to understand it; See Gill on Act 9:7.