Oration
Oration
The word occurs in the NT only in connexion with Herod Agrippa, who, at Caesarea, made an oration () from the throne (or judgment-seat [Revised Version margin]) to the embassy from Tyre and Sidon (Act 12:21). It refers to set speeches made in public assemblies, but sometimes it is employed in a derogatory sense for speeches of the demagogic order. There is a curious use of the word in the Septuagint , Pro 30:31 (Pro 28:27)- . It was not an unusual thing for kings and princes to make orations in public assembly.
John Reid.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Oration
from demos, “the people” and agoreuo, “to speak in the public assembly, to deliver an oration,” occurs in Act 12:21.