“"And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence." Do you observe how the using the same tongue subdued them? In fact, they had a sort of awe for that language.”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on Acts 47
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2(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
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1Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.
— Acts 22:2 —
3I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
4And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.