Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 9:8

8 And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.

When he opened his eyes as at other times, when he did rise to see, the glorious light had so dazled him, that he could see nothing; thus Saul was, and all men are before their conversion: He had the shape of a man, and of one learned in the Law, when notwithstanding he is blind, and sees or knows nothing as he ought to know.