And how hear we, every man in our own language wherein we were born?
Though these men were Jews by descent, each heard them speaking in the language wherein he was born, their native tongue, not Hebrew or Syriac or Chaldee. The miracle lies in this: every hearer, from whatever country he came, heard his own language spoken.
AI summary
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? (e) Not that they spoke one language, and different languages were heard, but the apostles spoke with different languages: for otherwise the miracle would have been in the hearers, whereas it is really in the speakers; Nazianzen in his oration of Whitsunday.
Verse 8. Wherein we were born. That is, as we say, in our native language; that which is spoken where we were born.