Acts 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 (see the note at ) to them, 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.

And he saith). This sketch of his life having been already made use of, in illustration of the remarkable account given of his conversion, by the historian in Acts 9:1 , a few supplementary notes are all that seem requisite here.