And as I began to speak
, That is, whilst he was speaking; the word "begin" with Luke,
both, in his Gospel and in this history, is used not to denote
the time or order of any action, but the thing itself; as in (
Luke 4:21 ) (
20:9 ) (
Acts 1:1 ) for
otherwise it was towards the close, and not at the beginning of
his discourse, that what follows happened:
the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the
beginning;
of our ministry, since the death, resurrection, and ascension of
Christ; meaning on the day of Pentecost, and that the Holy Ghost
fell on Cornelius and those that were with him, in a like visible
form, and in the same kind of gifts, as speaking with tongues, as
on them.