Acts 22:22

They gave him audience

(ηκουον). Imperfect active, they kept on listening, at least with respectful attention.Unto this word

(αχρ τουτου του λογου). But "this word" was like a spark in a powder magazine or a torch to an oil tank. The explosion of pent-up indignation broke out instantly worse than at first (Acts 21:30).Away with such a fellow from the earth

(Αιρε απο της γης τον τοιουτον). They renew the cry with the very words in Acts 21:36, but with "from the earth" for vehemence.For it is not fit

(ου γαρ καθηκεν). Imperfect active of καθηκω, old verb to come down to, to become, to fit. In the N.T. only here and Romans 1:28. The imperfect is a neat Greek idiom for impatience about an obligation: It was not fitting, he ought to have been put to death long ago. The obligation is conceived as not lived up to like our "ought" (past of owe). See Robertson, Grammar, p. 886.