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Paul never mentions this episode in his own epistles, so we have no first-hand evidence of how he felt. In fact, what Paul wrote in his epistles, long before Acts of the Apostles was written, strongly suggests he was never blinded at all.
Acts contains three versions of the account of Paul's (or Saul's) conversion on the road to Damascus, each a little different to the others. In each account in Acts, there was a blinding light, which appeared only to Paul in the version at acts 9:3-8 and probably at Acts 26:13-19, but appeared to both Paul and his men at Acts 22:6-11 (although only Paul was blinded). Paul alone heard a voice from heaven at Acts 22:6-1 and probably at Acts 26:13-19, but both Paul and his men heard the voice at Acts 9:3-8.
In the account of Paul's conversion, Jesus is supposed to have remarked to Paul as he lay on the ground, "It hurts you to kick against the goad [or 'pricks']" (Acts 25:14). This should give a good indication of how Paul would have felt, lying blinded and helpless on the ground. However, this is a quotation from the ancient play, the Bacchae, by Euripides, and there are other parallels with the play and at least one use of the same play in Acts of the Apostles. This suggests that the account of Paul being blinded on the road to Damascus was a literary creation rather than a historical account. Paul was never made blind.
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