e So wer. 7. ££1529]0, they were as in an ext offe, (tire nbjeftt wan tan theſe wonderful things ; ani therefore they defirz on: of apt | be reſolved concerning them. 13 Others 4 mocking ſaid, Theſe men ere full of - gow wine e, d Viz. Toe Scribes and Phariſees, and alfo the Inf1ubirants of 74; and Fernſalem ; who not underſtanding the Languages of other Ne. tions might think the Apoſtles did but babble, and talk id!cly or ruc--. Iy, when they fp:ke with other tongues. e Or ſweet wine; whic! drunk, may in<briate, and might be had ar that time, tho' the f.'1 Vintage was not yet. 14 & Bur Peter ſtanding up f with the eleven , lifr up his voice, end ſaid unto them, Ye men of Judea þ, and ai ye that dwell at Jeruſalem z, be this known unto you, and
hearken to my words :
Flr ſp+3ks his extraordinary courage: Affeer his tumbling and £11, he runs tis faſter, being recovered ; and begins to verific his name which our Lord had given him, ſhewing himſelf as firm and fied asa Rx:k. g The other Apoſtles, probably, ipake roo in diver; anguags ; but by reaſon of rhe ſhortneſs of St. Luke's intended Narrative, and it being to the ſame purpoſe, their Sermons are omit- ted. - þ Such as came from other parts of the Country ; # Sach as were conſtant In habirants in that City.
I5 For theſe k are not drunken /, as ye ſuppoſe, ſeeing It 1s but the third hour of the day m.
& This proves that the orhec Apoſtles ſpake as well as Pcrer, and were vindicated by him. { He mildly and ſolidly contures their calumny. » The which anlv-ers to our nine a clock in the morning, and was the ordinary tine four their morning Sacrifice and Prayer, befor: which time they did not ear or drink any thing ; nay, 'tis thought on Feſtival days, ir was afual with them notto ear or drink until the (ixth hour, thar is. noon-time 2 that they might be more intent upon, and fit for the ſervice of the day. How little ſoever (ro our ſhame) ſuch an argument would be of proofnow, it was in their ſober times very concluſive.
16 But this is that which was ſpoken by the prophe:.
oFither the miraculous wind was heard, or the report of what Joel a
had hapned was ſpread abroad. Either out of ſhame, that they had ain Chrif, whom God! thus extraordinarily glorified ; or out of admiration of ſo extraordinary matter. p Probably, not that the ſime words ſpoken by the Apoſtles, were diverſifyed according to every ones underſtanding, for then the miracle had been wrought in thei Auditors, and not in th? Apoſtles : but that the Apoſtles did {1k to every one in their proper and moſt intelligible Language , and this was the gift of Tongues, which for ſome time after alia was continued in the Church.
1 And they were all amazed, and marvelled, ſaying one to another, Bchold, are not all theſe . which ſpeak
73 God does ordinarily, before that he ſends judgments, and does his ſtrange work, endeavour to reclaim them by mercies : Not onely Joel, bur 1ſaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezckiel, and others Pro- phefied before, the deſtrudtion of that people and.Countrey, by Nebuchadnez3ar ; but now btfore the final and total ruine, God ſent
greater, and more than theſe, and endued them with a greater mea-
ſure of the Spirit ; cleater and tuller Jight to {o:ewarn them of, and
deliver them from wrath to come. 17 * And it ſhall come to pa$ in the laſt days o faith "IA. 44. 3 God, +I will pour out p of my ſpirit upon all fleſh g :an
Callean @ 3 your ſons and your daugliters x ſhall propheſie, and your:
q IJ TLSSTED q .
thought of on that account, than the ordinary fort ofthat Nation vere ; beſides, they thought no Prophet was to be expeQed from Galilze. John 1. 46.
8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue 7, Witreſn Wwe were born ?
! Atzatzog, Vignifies commonly a different way of ſpeaking, or pronouncing in the fame Language ; as our Southern and Northern men differ fome words in pronunciation, tho” ſpeaking both the Ey/iſh Tongue. Gods works being moſt perfe&t, the Apoſtlesmight ivak, not only the fame Language, which all underſtood, but in the a = iliom and propriety of ſpeech, which agreed to every one
9 Farthians, and Medes, and Elamites s, and the dwel-
2 Tim. 3. x. Hebr. 1. 2. 2 Pet. 3. } asalſo called the /aft time, 1 Pet. 1.5. 1 John 2.18. Jude 18. becauſe we are now under the laft, and perfeQeſt diſpenſation of the things of God ; and no other is to be looked for until the conſummation of all things, p Before the Spirit was given in leflcr meaſures, and comparatively but by
drops, here a little, and there alittle; now more largely, even to overflow. q All forts of men, as well Gentiles as J-ws, contrary un-
to their proud conceit, that God dwelt in none our of the land of Ijracl. rFulfilled in Amma the Propheteſs, Like 2. 36. and ia the four daughters of Philip, Chap. 21.9. 's Thele were formerly, ej- ther repreſentations more inward to their mind, as Eſay's and Jere- miah”s were : or more outward to their bodily eye, as Daniel's was
ers in Mctopotamia r, and in Judea #, and Cappadocia, Chap. 5. 5. and ſuch as Petey had, Chap. 10.11. t By dreams God n Pontus, and Alia x, ſomerimes manifeſted his will, asto "0 5 but this is by St. Perer Th
:Deſcended from Elam, Gen, 10. 22. thought to be the Perſians. | accommodated to the Goſpel times.
e Prophets ſpake ſuitably to
! Between the ewo Rivers 7/gris and Euphrates, u The Apoſtles be- | them unto whom they preached.; and the Apoſtle rightly under- 1g Galilcans, ſpake a diſtintt DialeCt from the reſt of the Jews, till | ſtands by theſe-expreſſions, the manifold and more clear Revelation now enabled to ſpeak as they did. x Someparricular diſtrict, at that | of the will of God ih Chriſt, |
ime eſpecially ſo called, as 1 Pee. 1+1. otherwiſe the places afore- rMcedere in 473 in a larger ſence.
18 And on my ſervants, and on my handmaidens z, 1 will pour out 1n thoſe days oi my ſpirit, and they fhall
1oParygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts | propheſie -
" Livz2 about Cyrene, and ſtrangers y of Rome, Jews and Proſelytes z | |
, 1 Who came either to Jeriſalem to worſhip, or for any othe
nels : It is evidenr, that many in or about the City of Rome ud imbraced the Jewi ſb Religion : and of themit may be under- 001 Jowy, The other mentioned, ver. 9. were ſuch as then dwelt hem, theſe were ſuch as lived elſewhere, oneiy now came to "or or ſojourn there. z Theſe were of two forts, The one, ſuch me over from Paganiſm unto the Jewiſh Relig:on, and were