Charles Ellicott Commentary Acts 8:30

"And Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?" — Acts 8:30 (ASV)

Do you understand what you read?—The Greek play on the word for understand (Ginôskein) and read (Anaginôskein) cannot easily be reproduced in English, but is worth noting as parallel to a like play in the well-known saying of the Emperor Julian (Anegnôn; egnôn; kategnôn)—“I read; I understood; I condemned.”