“For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.”
These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It is only nine in the morning! — Peter's refutation is simple: early morning drinking is culturally implausible, mocking the mockers' stupidity. The appeal to custom and reason establishes that the Spirit's work is not irrational or obscene but fits intelligible patterns of behavior and theological understanding.
Church Fathers on Acts 2:15
[He men of Judea, and all you that dwell at Jerusalem,] whom the writer above described as strangers. Here he directs his discourse to those others, the mockers, and while he seems to reason with those, he sets these right. For indeed it was divinely ordered that some mocked, that he might have a starting-point for his defense, and by means of that defense, might teach. [And all you that dwell in Jerusalem.] It seems they accounted it a high encomium to dwell in Jerusalem…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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