John Gill's Exposition on Acts 21:40

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And when he had given him licence, etc.] To speak to the people, which he could not well deny him, after he had so freely declared who he was, and in so courteous a manner addressed him, and asked leave of him: Paul stood on the stairs; on the steps of the ascent to the castle, on the top of them: and beckoned with the hand unto the people; to desire silence, which he might be able to do, notwithstanding his chains; for his being bound with a chain to a soldier, did not hinder the moving and lifting up of his hand: and when there was made a great silence; either through the authority of the captain, who might command it, or through the desire of the people, to hear what he could say for himself: he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue; which the people he spoke to best understood, and was his own mother tongue; the Alexandrian copy reads, “in his own dialect”; this was not pure Hebrew that was spoke in common in those times, but the Syro-Chaldean language: saying; as in the following chapter.

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