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2. ἀκούσαντες δέ, and when they heard. The beckoning with the hand (Act 21:40) had procured silence enough for the Apostle’s first words to be heard, and now they caught the sound of their own dialect.
μᾶλλον παρέσχον ἡσυχίαν, they were the more quiet. ἡσυχία is stillness as opposed to motion, while σιγή (Act 21:40) is quiet as opposed to noise. The phrase in this verse indicates that the crowd not only abstained from cries and shouts, but kept still in their places that they might hear the better. Thus a very high degree of quiet is described.