And … Hebrew tongue The beckoning with the hand (Acts 21:40) had procured silence enough for the Apostle's first words to be heard, and now they caught the sound of their own dialect.

they kept the more silence The noun in the original refers not only to peace from cries and shouts, but to general quietness, such as would be produced by refraining from all movements. It expresses a very high degree of quietness. Rev. Ver.has "they were the more quiet."

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