| Sarah Trimmer - 1829 - 166 pages
...man. At length, some wicked Jews formed a conspiracy against him, and bound themselves by an oath, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. The Apostle was at that time in prison, but the thing was made known to the captain of the guard, and... | |
| Grierson - Jerusalem - 1830 - 318 pages
...historian continues to inform us, that " certain Jews badded together, and bound themselves by 8 curse, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul ;" and that Lysias imagined Paul was a certain chief of banditti, who had led into the wilderness four thousand... | |
| 1830 - 586 pages
...his own to violate the law of God. The assassins who vowed, and that with the solemnity of an oath, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul, were not by this desperate act exempted from the obligation of the moral law, which says, " Thou shall... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...with him Priscilla and Aquila ; having shorn ki* head in Cenchrea, for he had a vow. Ac. xviii. 18. And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together,...would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to-morrow,... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...away Paul to go as it were to the «e»; but SH« and Timothens »bode there »till. Ac. xvii. 14. hlan (" with an oath of execration"), saying, That they would neither eat nor drink, till they had killed... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 612 pages
...recede from our vow, and humble ourselves before God for our temerity. The forty conspirators who swore that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul, and Herod who swore that he would give his daughter whatsoever she should ask of him, had no right to bind... | |
| Bible - 1832 - 244 pages
...also at Home. 12 And wlten it was day, certain of the ews bunded together, and tionitd tliein. selves under a curse, saying, that they would neither eat nor drink till they hod killed Paul. 13 And they were more than forty whicb liad made this conspiracy. 14 And they came... | |
| Augustin Calmet - Bible - 1832 - 1060 pages
...purpose. In Acts xxiii. 12, 13, it is said that above forty persons bound themselves with an oath, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. The Essenians were engaged by oaths to observe the statutes of their sect; and those who incurred the... | |
| John Robert McDowall - Prostitution - 1832 - 118 pages
..." provided it can be done legally." The former pledged themselves to each other, without condition, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul ; the latter, that they would not rest " until these base slanderers be punished." The Jerusalem conspirators... | |
| Samuel Wood (B.A.) - 1832 - 244 pages
...prison ; and afterwards, when he had been told that forty of them had conspired together, declaring that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul, he sent him down under a strong guard of soldiers, to Felix the governor, who resided at Caesarea.... | |
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