Teks -- Acts 22:2 (NET)

22:2 (When they heard that he was addressing them in Aramaic, they became even quieter.) Then Paul said,

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Robertson: Act 22:2 - He spake

He spake ( prosephōnei ).

Imperfect active, was speaking. See aorist active prosephōnēsen in Act 21:40.

Robertson: Act 22:2 - They were the more quiet

They were the more quiet ( māllon pareschon hēsuchian ).

Literally, The more (māllon ) they furnished or supplied (second aorist active indicative of parechō ) quietness (hēsuchian , old word, in the N.T. only here and 2Th 3:12; 1Ti 2:11.). Precisely this idiom occurs in Plutarch and the lxx (Job 34:29). Knowling notes the fondness of Luke for words of silence (sigē , sigaō , hēsuchazō ) as in Luk 14:4; Luk 15:26; Act 11:18; Act 12:17; Act 15:12; Act 21:14, Act 21:40. It is a vivid picture of the sudden hush that swept over the vast mob under the spell of the Aramaic. They would have understood Paul’ s Koiné[28928]š Greek, but they much preferred the Aramaic. It was a masterstroke.

Vincent: Act 22:2 - Kept - silence

Kept - silence ( παρέσχον ἡσυχίαν )

Lit., gave quiet.

JFB: Act 22:2 - when they heard . . . the Hebrew tongue

(See on Act 21:40).

JFB: Act 22:2 - they kept the more silence

They could have understood him in Greek, and doubtless fully expected the renegade to address them in that language, but the sound of their holy mother tongue awed them into deeper silence.

Clarke: Act 22:2 - When they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue

When they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue - He had probably been traduced by the Jews of Asia as a mere Gentile, distinguished only by his virulence against the Jewish religion; which virulence proceeded from his malice and ignorance.

Calvin: Act 22:2 - That he spake Hebrew

2.That he spake Hebrew This is indeed an usual thing, that when men which speak diverse languages are together, we hear those more willingly who speak our own language; but the Jews were moved with another peculiar cause, because they imagined that Paul was offended − ⁴⁹⁷ with his own kindred, so that he did even hate their tongue, or that he was some rogue which had not so much as learned the speech of that nation whereof he said he came. Now, so soon as they heard their own language, they began to have some better hope. Furthermore, it is uncertain whether Paul spake in the Hebrew or in the Syrian tongue; for we know that the speech of the Jews was corrupt and degenerate after their exile, forasmuch as they had much from the Chaldeans and Syrians. For mine own part, I think, that because he spake as well to the common sort as unto the elders, he used the common speech which was at that day usual. −

TSK: Act 22:2 - in

in : Act 21:40

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Poole: Act 22:2 - The Hebrew tongue // They kept the more silence

The Hebrew tongue the ordinary Hebrew; that which was taken for Hebrew, and spoken by the Hebrews after their return from the captivity, though mixed with the Syriac; as Act 21:40 .

They kept the more silence it being more grateful unto them to hear Paul speak in their mother tongue, especially they having so great a prejudice against all other nations and languages.

Gill: Act 22:2 - And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them // they kept the more silence // and he saith

And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them,.... See Gill on Act 21:40.

they kept the more silence; it being their mother tongue, and which they best understood; and which the captain and the Roman soldiers might not so well under stand; and chiefly because the Hellenistic language was not so agreeable to them, nor the Hellenistic Jews, who spoke the Greek language, and used the Greek version of the Bible; and such an one they took Paul to be, besides his being a Christian; wherefore when they heard him speak in the Hebrew tongue, it conciliated their minds more to him, at least engaged their attention the more to what he was about to say:

and he saith; the Syriac and Ethiopic versions add, "to them", as follows.