Acts 15:12 - Exposition

And for then, A.V.; they hearkened for gave audience, A.V.; rehearsing what signs for declaring what miracles, A.V. Kept silence ; marking the contrast between the noisy questionings and disputings which had preceded Peter's speech, and the quiet orderly attention with which they now listened to Paul and Barnabas, telling them of the conversion of the Gentiles. It recalls Virgil's description of the effect of the presence of a man of grave piety upon an excited crowd—

" Tum, pielate gravem ac meritis si forte virum quem

Aspexere, silent, arrectisque auribus adslant ."

(' AE neid,' 1.152.)