Acts 14:11

"In the Lycanonian language" This was. local dialect of some kind, "it was perfectly natural for the people, in their excitement, to revert to their native language" (Reese p. 504). "The gods have become like men and have come down to us" This miracle led the people to suppose that Paul and Barnabas were gods who had taken on human form. "It was evidently beyond human ability to so heal. man, and they had no other explanation to account for the healing, for it was something more than their common magicians of the day could do!" (Reese p. 504). The poems of ancient writers Homer and Virgil are filled with accounts of how the gods took on human form and then they were supposed to learn about human affairs to aid the men they came to visit (See Barnes Notes, p. 218).