| Richard Mant - Apostles - 1828 - 634 pages
...event, "went down, and took him by force from among them, and brought him into the castle1." Hereupon "certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, (they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy,) that they would neither eat nor drink till... | |
| 1828 - 536 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... | |
| Joseph Fincher - Providence and government of God - 1829 - 442 pages
...HANDS OF THE JEWS WHO HAD BOUND THEMSELVES UNDER A CURSE TO DESTROY HIM. ACTS xxiii. 12—24, 31, 32. And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together,...were more than forty which had made this conspiracy. And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse,... | |
| James Nourse - 1829 - 292 pages
...witness also at forrns'lhlfuibu'ne Rome. And when it was day, certain of the Jews 12 of meir design, banded together, and bound themselves under a curse,...would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. 1 And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy. "And 13 they came to the chief priests... | |
| Richard Biscoe - 1829 - 638 pages
...Proleg. c. 4. p. 42. Seld. de Jure Nat. 1. 3. c. 3. p. 287. Light. vo1. 2. p. 649. m Acts iii. i. Vid. together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying,...would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul ". This is looked upon by the learned Selden as a particular form of excommunication°. For it was... | |
| Hervey Wilbur - 1829 - 444 pages
...hear witness also at Rome. e 12 And when it was day, certain of the Jews handed together, and hound themselves under a curse, saying, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. 13 And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy. /14 And they came to the chief priests... | |
| Esther Copley - Animals in the Bible - 1829 - 742 pages
...Rome. Next day, more than forty Jews, encouraged by the priests, wickedly bound themselves in an oath, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul; but timely discovery being made of their conspiracy, Paul was conveyed by night to Cesarea, to the... | |
| 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... | |
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