And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.
And as I began to speak - in point of fact, it was not until he was closing his address; but the apostle's design was to intimate how quickly, as cause and effect, the one was followed by the other.
The Holy Spirit fell on them, as on us at the beginning - meaning the day of Pentecost; the attestation of this effusion of the Spirit, as well as the effusion itself, being the same as then.