Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 9:4

4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him , Saul , Saul, why persecutest thou me?

Saul fell to the earth, struck with the amazing light and terrible voice of Christ; as also with the sense of the presence of God, which he knew was thus reverenced by Daniel 8.17. and 10.9.

The name Saul is the rather mentioned, to mind him and us of his persecuting of Christ in his members; as his name-sake had persecuted David who was a type of Christ:

and 'tis ingeminated or doubled, not onely to rouze and awaken Saul; but to te[illegible: 3 letters]fie the more his love to him, and commiseration of him.

Christ was in Heaven, beyond Sauls rage; but Christ and his Church make but one body; thus Christ says, I was hungry and thirsty, Matth. 25.35. And in all their afflictions he is afflicted, Isaiah 63.9. but me is here emphatically spoken, as if our Saviour had minded him of his great love and mercy to him, in dying and suffering for him; and why then should he persecute him?