Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 2:15

15 For these are not drunken , as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day .

Or proves that the other Apostles spake as well as Peter, and were vindicated by him:

he mildly and solidly confutes their calumny. The

which answers to our nine a clock in the morning, and was the ordinary time for their morning Sacrifice and Prayer, before which time they did not eat or drink any thing; nay, 'tis thought on Festival days, it was usual with them not to eat or drink, until the sixth hour, that is, noon-time: that they might be more intent upon, and that fit for the service of the day. How little soever (to our shame) such an argument would be of proof now, it was in their soberer times very conclusive.