ἀνεῳγμένων; see critical notes. οὐδένα ἔβλεπε : his eyes, which he had closed mechanically, as he fell overwhelmed with the dazzling brightness of the light, and of the appearance of Jesus, he now opens, but only to find that he saw nothing (οὐδέν) (see critical note) he had become blind (so Weiss and Wendt, cf. Acts 22:11). This blindness was the clearest proof that the appearances vouchsafed to him had been a reality (Felten), see also Acts 9:18. χειραγωγοῦντες : the necessary result of his blindness, cf. Judges 16:26 and Tob 11:16, but in each case the reading is varied (see H. and R.); in N.T. only in Acts, cf. Acts 22:11 (and see Acts 13:11); it is also found in the Apocryphal Gospel of Peter, x. (ver. 40 in Harnack's edition). “He who would strike others was himself struck, and the proud Pharisee became a deeply humbled penitent a guide of the blind” he was himself to be guided by others (Felten).

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