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To: pcottraux; redleghunter; Springfield Reformer; kinsman redeemer; BlueDragon; metmom; boatbums; ...
The men with him heard the voice but didn’t see anyone...Therefore, the men accompanying Paul really did hear the voice.

Overall well done and written, except for this technicality, which pertains to a false charge of contradiction by adversaries:

And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice , but seeing no man. (Act 9:7)

And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. (Act 26:14)

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. (Act 22:9)

But the word for "voice" ("phōnē) can simply mean "sound" versus a the articulation, as in John 12:28-29:

Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him.

Thus the men traveling with Paul fearfully heard a sound without an apparent source, but did not hear the words "Saul, Saul," etc).

And what we need is "ears to hear:" Deuteronomy 29:4 Ezekiel 12:2 Matthew 11:15 Matthew 13:9 Matthew 13:43 Mark 4:9 Mark 4:23 Mark 7:16 Luke 8:8 Luke 14:35

19 posted on 06/17/2018 4:05:12 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: daniel1212
And what we need is "ears to hear:"

And Rev. 2:7 etc, cf. 1 Sam. 15:22 as well. Better hear the quiet voice, as Elijah, than be so distracted by assembly and/or missionary work that He has to thunder as in Rev 1:10:

"I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, . . ."

Had Beloved John gotten distracted? Might he actually have been the messenger to the Ephesians?

26 posted on 06/17/2018 5:43:00 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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