Acts 2:1-28,Genesis 11:1-9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:7

Are not all these - Galileans? - Persons who know no other dialect, save that of their own country. Persons wholly uneducated, and, consequently, naturally ignorant of those languages which they now speak so fluently. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:8

How hear we every man in our own tongue - Some have supposed from this that the miracle was not so much wrought on the disciples as on their hearers: imagining that, although the disciples spoke their own tongue, yet every man so understood what was spoken as if it had been spoken in the language in which he was born. Though this is by no means so likely as the opinion which states that the disciples themselves spoke all these different languages, yet the miracle is the same, howsoever it be... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:9

Parthians - Parthia anciently included the northern part of modern Persia: it was situated between the Caspian Sea and Persian Gulf, rather to the eastward of both. Medes - Media was a country lying in the vicinity of the Caspian Sea; having Parthia on the east, Assyria on the south, and Mesopotamia on the west. Elamites - Probably inhabitants of that country now called Persia: both the Medes and Elamites were a neighboring people, dwelling beyond the Tigris. Mesopotamia - Now... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:10

Phrygia - A country in Asia Minor, southward of Pontus. Pamphylia - The ancient name of the country of Natolia, now called Caramania, between Lycia and Cilicia, near the Mediterranean Sea. Egypt - A very extensive country of African bounded by the Mediterranean on the north; by the Red Sea and the Isthmus of Suez, which divide it from Arabia, on the east; by Abyssinia or Ethiopia on the south; and by the deserts of Barca and Nubia on the west. It was called Mizraim by the ancient... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:11

Cretes - Natives of Crete, a large and noted island in the Levant, or eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, now called Candia. Arabians - Natives of Arabia, a well known country of Asia, having the Red Sea on the west; the Persian Gulf on the east; Judea on the north; and the Indian Ocean on the south. The wonderful works of God - Such as the incarnation of Christ; his various miracles, preaching, death, resurrection, and ascension; and the design of God to save the world through... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:13

These men are full of new wine - Rather sweet wine, for γλευκους , cannot mean the mustum , or new wine, as there could be none in Judea so early as pentecost. The Γλευκος , gleucus , seems to have been a peculiar kind of wine, and is thus described by Hesychius and Suidas: Γλευκος, το αποσταγμα της σταφυλης, πριν πατηθῃ . Gleucus is that which distils from the grape before it is pressed. This must be at once both the strongest and sweetest wine. Calmet observes that the... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:14

Peter, standing up with the eleven - They probably spoke by turns, not altogether; but Peter began the discourse. All ye that dwell at Jerusalem - Οἱ κατοικουντες would be better translated by the word sojourn, because these were not inhabitants of Judea, but the strangers mentioned in Acts 2:9-11 , who had come up to the feast. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:15

But the third hour of the day - That is, about nine o'clock in the morning, previously to which the Jews scarcely ever ate or drank, for that hour was the hour of prayer. This custom appears to have been so common that even the most intemperate among the Jews were not known to transgress it; Peter therefore spoke with confidence when he said, these are not drunken - seeing it is but the third hour of the day, previously to which even the intemperate did not use wine. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:16

Spoken by the prophet Joel - The prophecy which he delivered so long ago is just now fulfilled; and this is another proof that Jesus whom ye have crucified is the Messiah. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:17

In the last days - The time of the Messiah; and so the phrase was understood among the Jews. I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh - Rabbi Tanchum says, "When Moses laid his hands upon Joshua, the holy blessed God said, In the time of the old text, each individual prophet prophesied; but, in the times of the Messiah, all the Israelites shall be prophets." And this they build on the prophecy quoted in this place by Peter. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy - The word... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:15

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:17

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