Acts 2:6 (WEB)
When this sound was heard, the multitude came together and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.
Catechism · 1
“On several occasions Christ promised this outpouring of the Spirit, a promise which he fulfilled first on Easter Sunday and then more strikingly at Pentecost.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 20:22; Acts 2:1-14.
Fathers and councils · 4
Augustine of Hippo
““Sit ye still in the city, because I send my promise upon you.”” — editor's note: Acts i. 15; ii. 1–12.
Read the whole comment“Was it night when that lame man was made whole at the word of Peter, or rather, at the word of the Lord dwelling in Peter?” — editor's note: Acts ii. 1, 6.
Read the whole comment“But “the Spirit was not yet given;” that is, with that abundance of spiritual grace which enabled those assembled together to speak in every language, and thus announce beforehand in the language of every nation the Church of the future: and so by this spiritual grace it was that nations were gathered into…” — editor's note: Acts ii. 4–6.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Did they each hear in their own dialect so that if I may so say, one sound was uttered, but many were heard; the air being thus beaten and, so to speak, sounds being produced more clear than the…” — editor's note: The actual order of the words in the Greek of Acts ii. 6 is, They heard each individual in his own dialect them speaking; so that the position of the comma…
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