It isn’t a man speaking, but a god may cause certain difficulties in some languages, for it is not possible to deny Herod being a man. Therefore one must say “he speaks like a god; he doesn’t speak like a man” or “he is a god speaking, not just a man speaking.”

They shouted in the Greek is a tense that suggests continuous action, “they shouted and kept on shouting.”

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Nida, Eugene A. A Handbook on The Acts of the Apostles. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1972. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .