Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 14:11
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Acts14:11
11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lift up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
Which was a Dialect of the Greek Tongue, that Language being in the lesser Asia ordinarily spoken.
The Heathens (especially their Poets) did frequently believe such kind of Apparitions. Probably at first from the appearing of Angels unto the Patriarchs and others, which by tradition they might have heard of.
Marginal references: Chap. 28.6.
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