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OET (OET-LV) And having_fallen on the ground, he_heard a_voice saying to_him:
Saulos, Saulos, why are_you_persecuting me?
OET (OET-RV) He dropped to his knees[fn] and heard a voice calling, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”
9:4 It seems most likely that Paul and company were walking to Damascus (and not on horseback despite paintings by Caravaggio and others). The journey of somewhere around 300km would have taken around two weeks.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
πεσὼν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν
/having/_fallen on the ground
Saul did not fall down accidentally. This could mean: (1) that the light caused him to fall to the ground. Alternate translation: “falling to the ground stunned by the dazzling light” (2) that Saul fainted when he saw the light. Alternate translation: “falling faint because of the glorious light”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
τί με διώκεις?
why me ˱you˲_/are/_persecuting
The voice is using the question form to rebuke Saul. If you would not use a rhetorical question for this purpose in your language, you could translate its words as a statement or an exclamation and communicate the rebuke in another way. Alternate translation: “you should not be persecuting me!”
9:1-19 The conversion of Saul of Tarsus on the Damascus road is of central importance to the narrative of Acts—Luke recounts the story three times (also 22:1-21; 26:1-29). Paul (Saul) also alludes to this experience several times in his letters (1 Cor 15:8-10; Gal 1:11-17; Phil 3:4-11; see 1 Tim 1:12-17). Saul’s conversion was his prophetic call and commission as an apostle (Acts 9:15; 22:15, 21; 26:15-18). No one is beyond the power of God to reach, redeem, and use for holy purposes—nothing is impossible with God (Luke 1:37). Paul was prepared through his training, upbringing, and experience to play a unique role in taking the gospel into the broader world as the “apostle to the Gentiles” (Rom 11:13; see 1 Cor 15:9; 2 Cor 12:11-12; Gal 1:1; Eph 3:8).
OET (OET-LV) And having_fallen on the ground, he_heard a_voice saying to_him:
Saulos, Saulos, why are_you_persecuting me?
OET (OET-RV) He dropped to his knees[fn] and heard a voice calling, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”
9:4 It seems most likely that Paul and company were walking to Damascus (and not on horseback despite paintings by Caravaggio and others). The journey of somewhere around 300km would have taken around two weeks.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.