Are not all these—Galileans? &c.— See on Matthew 26:73 and on John 1:46. The word διαλεκτος, Acts 2:8 signifies not only what we call a dialect, or different way of speaking the same language, but alsoan entirely distinct language; and perhaps it may be used here to express the propriety and accuracy wherewith these low and uneducated Galileans spoke these different languages. The original in Acts 2:7 is very beautiful, and expressive of the astonishment of the hearers,—Οικ ιδου παντες, &c.
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Acts 2:7-8
7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?