From the Pauline author of the Acts this might fairly be expected, and if we linguistically examine the speech, we have additional evidence that it is simply, like others which we have considered, a composition from his own pen. We shall, as briefly as possible, refer to every word which is not of too common occurrence to require notice, and point out where they are elsewhere used. The opening [------] occurs elsewhere in the Acts 13 times, as we have already pointed out, being the favourite phrase placed in the mouth of all speakers; [------], x. 28, xviii. 25, xix. 15, 25, xx. 18, xxii. 19, xxiv. 10, xxvi. 3, 26, and elsewhere only 5 times. The phrase [------] at the beginning of a sentence has been pointed out, in connection with a similar way of expressing the personal pronoun in x. 28, [------], and [------], as consequently characteristic of Peter, and considered "important as showing that these reports are not only according to the _sense_ of what was said, but the words spoken, _verbatim_."(1) This is to overlook the fact that the very same words are put into the mouth of Paul. Peter commences his speech, xv. 7: [------] Paul begins his speech at Miletus, xx. 18: [------]; and at Ephesus, Demetrius the silversmith commences his address, xix. 25: [------] Cf. xxiii. 15. [------], xv. 21, xxi. 16; Luke ix. 8, 19; elsewhere 6 times; the expression [------] does not elsewhere occur in the New Testament, but [------] is common in the Septuagint. Cf. Ps. xliii. 1, lxxvi. 5, cxlii. 5, Isaiah xxxvii. 26, Lament, i. 7, ii. 17, &c, &c. [------], i. 2, 24, vi. 5, xiii. 17, xv. 22, 25; Luke {240}