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The Pulpit Commentary — Acts — Volume 2
Arthur Charles Hervey [1808-1894] · 310,527 words · 337 reading sections
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mined tl,efr «]'1>ninfed ,eapanp for and 1,afh Certain even of your own poeto; viz. Aratus delermi11e,: f/,c limes l,~(ore appninted, A.V. of 'l'nrsus (270 B.o.), who bas the exnct From the unity ol Go,l PRul deduces the words quoted by St. Paul, nnd Cloonthes of unity of the liurnrm raco, nil created by Assos (:JOO B.…
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reo.ohcd tl1om. The man (lt.v~p(). Bo eh. it. 22, him in ecclesiastical writers is the well- 'I11uovv ,-op Na(wpaio,,, d.vopa l,,,rb 'TOV e,ou known one of EU80bius, 'Eccl. Hist.,' iii. iv., 1,;.,,. 0 0,0«-r/llvov, 1<.-r.11. Ami so in John v. in :which he srrys, "We nre told by an 27 our Lord himsolf enys of himself t…
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yers. 16;-34.-!iie ":°ss ef Christ in tlie metropolis ef_a,·t and philosopl,y. There is a srngular 10!er~s~ m this_ first encounter of !he gospel with the a.rt and philosophy of Athens, and 1t 1s mstruct1ve to note the attitude taken by the great preacher in the encounter. v\Thether St.. Paul had artistic taste we have…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vere. 1-9.-Afulfilled and an unfulfilled prophecy. These verses would supply us with other material for thought. They present to us: 1. Christian workers patiently ancl conscie □ tiously proceeding with their mission (vers. 1, 2). 2. Christian ad vocatcH employing the weapon which was p…
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the estimable thing. This is the true, the real nobility. That which is adventitious dependent on birth and blood, is only circumstantial, is liable to be dishonoured by th~ chances and che.nges of time, is of no account with God. 'l'hat which is based on character nnd born of wise choice, pure feeling, estime.ble acti…
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to go further than it went in Athena, If ever, anywhere, human philosophy, human art, tho human imagination could have reached truth and found Goel, it would have triurophc<l at Athens, But there was the melancholy exhibition of error and immo- rality, The utmost exertion of human thought had ended in (I) the worshi…
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proud, 11elf-llllfficient, but insufficient egoism. Christianity dill'era from it In that it teaohe11- J. THAT A Drvnra FATHBR, AND NOT A.N INEXORABLE FATE, I8 TRB RULING POWER IN THE UNIVl>RSB. It is not true that Deity is subject to a\l-eonquering fate; it is true that all circumstanoe is under Divino control. JI. …
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abounding signs of superstition in the streets of Athens. But he had the wisdom to begin bis address to these "men of Athens " by an expression which they would take to be complimentary. He told them that he perceived they were abwndanely r1Jligwus. He did not conclude this from witne~sing their numerous divinities,…
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with Rll thRt WRB eo pRinfnl in his sight, Rll the unimaginable iniquity of forty centuries of h1;1man ~in. Not! indeed, without ma"y proofs of his DilliM displeasure; not without mRmfestations of hts holy wrath. He sent sickness, sorrow, CRl11mlty, death,es marks of bis meaning in regard to sin, But for long ages of e…
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nature perfectly (Hob. iv. 15). 3, He claim~ that we shall all come into living relation to himself; we must all be "found m him'' (Phil. iii. 9; John xv. 4, 6; 1 John ii. 28). IV. 'l'HAT Gon BAB 0IVEN O'B STRONG ASSURANCE OF ms DIVINE PURPOSE. "Whereof he bath given," etc. We have an assurance of such intention in: 1…
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1t&nd the Scriptures in the new light thrown by history upon them. The study of the Bible is a right, a duty, and e. profound science. He.sty generalizations and fixed opinions must give way before larger light. ~II. TRUE FAITH AND FREE INQUIRY oo HAND·IN·ITANll. It is only the profound believer who can afford to d…
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this unity; and in the last resort this uni_ty is not conceivable as "law" or "force" merely, bnt only as the living and t~o !ov1~g God. In his infinite majeHty, heaven is his throne, earth his footstool. He 1s m himself both Temple and Inhabitant. The voice of God bursts asunder the system of idolatry and superstit…
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ledfe and pity, severity and compassion, are united in Christ. 4. The call to repentance, Iths an 1;1rgent call. The more indifferent and light-hearted tho listeners, tho more ~rgeotly 1t must s_ound. It is an absolute call, admitting of no exceptione. No ignorance and no philosophy, no dignity or rank, can exempt men…
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it knows not its own true baRis. Decrees of Cresar must sometimes be resisted. 3. Of the populace. Mistaken ideas of their own interests, Deceivableness under the lnfluonce of demagogues or those w?o pander to their lowest feelings. 'l'he blessing was rejected. Jesus was a better Krng for the people than Cmsar. II. 'f…
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re~urrection." Paul at Athens a typical fact. No place so representative. No preacher so equal to the occasion. Hie spirit stirred within him. Idolatry-turning human greatness into ruin. " To the unknown God." Great opportunity well employed. No dr<'.ary denunciations. No lowering the gospel by admixture with human spe…
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The message wriUen out in the facte of the gospel. Paul led up his hearers to Christ. To us religion is Christ. The resurrection is the seal on the promise of life. II. Consider Tlll!l APPLICATIONS 01!' BUOH A TRUTH. 1. The essential and supreme question of every man's existence is what he is to God, and what God is t…
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of his own ne.tion, as the method which went riii;ht down to the root of its dece.y, dia• order, misery I It would surely aeem that nothiug could be more nugatory than t,o labour as e.postles laboured, and to suffer e.s they suffered, and to be filled with zeal RS they were filled with zeal, if it were for mere pers…
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o.nd not flo.ttoring, but faithful to reprove and to teach, as well as to stimulate and uplift by promises. Such readiness e.s this is noble and ennobling. It saves souls pinin;:(. It saves wasted energies, It obviates vagrant pursuits. And for all such it substitutes o genuine education. II, DETERMINATION TO BE COMPE…
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family the universal one. 4. A Creator-God who docs not forsake men to their own inventions, but is t~e present and ruling Providence among them. 'l.'here is such a reality as an admin1stration of the wide empire on earth, and that administration in each part, each greater or less distribution, is Divine, is that of…
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outer enr, nor silence whnt speaks of itself in their inner ear, 3. They mock when they don't understand and don't try to understand, 4. They mock when they are ready to risk everything, mther than yield anything of self and self-will. II. 'l'HEl\l!l ARE WHO HEAR AND PROORABTINATE, 1. They procrastinate when they are …
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own ~ing feeling._ A man _is not always dispos~ for pri~ate prayer or publio worship, but the habit keeps him related to these thmgs, and it ie often found thnt while engaged in them, the needed mood of feeling will come. Custom only may tak~ us to worship, but eye and heart may be opened ,vhen we are there. 2. They…
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m. MESSIAH IB JESUS ol!' NAZABETll, The things found t.o be necessary are met in him and in him alone. Show the correepondehce between the facts of the Christian teaching and the requirements of Scripture prophecy, and impress the personal demand which St. Paul makes to follow on his argument; then your loyalty, your t…
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t.eachings; and (2) verifice.tion, or adequate and reasonable grounds for belior. But It is characteristic of intelligent inquiry that it seeks its proofs within the spheres of its subjrcts. If it inquireR concerning physiCl\l principles, it seeks for proof l\nd illustra- tion in physical facts. If its sphere be moral…
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le but the aspiration of souls made In the image of God, who cry for permanence, for holiness, for rest, for God, and "can find no rest until they find rest in him." We must seek after something new, on and on, until we find God. And Scripture inspires us to such seeking; for it assures ue that "Eye bath not seen, nor …
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religion, wonld have closed the eam of his audience to any messa.ge which he might deliver, and might have put him in aome personal danger. In his apeech he heartily recognizes the worahipping instinot ; be sees the dissatisfaction with all existing forms of worship which indicates an aching and yearning of aoul to kno…
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EXPOSITION. Aquila.. A Roman name, Grmcized into CHAPTER XVIII, 'A1e~A<n. Knights o.nd tribunes and others Ver. 1.-He for Paul, A.V. and T.R. of the no.me occur in Roman history. After these things, etc. No hint is given Whether the Jewish family residing in by St. Luke a.a to the length of Paul's Pontus took the na…
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simillll" to that found on thret or four in- Thesealonica from Athens. If there were scriptions before the time of Constantine, extant a letter of Paul to the Dorronns, it where Christians are <'ailed Xp"1711'r111vo(, nnd would probably mention hie sending back to the formntion of the French "'ord Chretien Silas to the…
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from A1Jt1ilo.'e house, as Alford and ol,herR. much people, etc. We may infer from this H docs not llppear to bo a question h1,re of intimation from him who "knoweth them whore l'nul lodged, but whore ho preached. that are his," which led tl'l St. Paul ste.ying Justus ho.d probably o. largo room, which he on at Corinth…
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by a ohanoo qnotation In Senooa's Epistle nor in the LXX., nor In olassical writers 104, of a saying of "my lo:rd Gallio, (Stoph., • TheB&ur.'). The judirment-aeat when he had II fever in .A.ohaia and im• (see note to ver. 12). mediately wont on boa.rd ship," where the Ver. 13.-Man for feT,lou,, A.V. The A.V, phras…
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would be likoly, thoreCore, to be eepecie.lly the t0.bem0.cle ({upd.o, ). It seems rather to hostile to Pe.ul. have been of the nature of that vow which Ver. 18.-Ilavlng tarried after thia yet ~osephns spee.ks of e.~ customary for persona many days for after this tarried there yet ID any affliction, viz. to make a v…
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reforenC"e to the ma.in narrative, which i1 of which Felix was at this time procn- moment&rily interrupted by the mention rotor. It was also the harbour by whlob of St. Paul's visit to the ayne.gogue. Note all tre.vellera from the West approaoheci the extreme importanoe of thia brief vieit to it, and from wllenoe ro…
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there, The time preoeding the visit of was no more his fault than St. Pet.er'e and Po.ul o.nd Darno.bas to Jerusalem, 1111 related St. Paul's that the factious Corinthians in eh. xv., is far the most likely for the elevated him, or rather degraded him, into encounter of the two apostles (see oh. xiv. the leader of a…
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...,.,,,dv. Them I■ • diff'crenoe of opinion ,b'TJ.,..,s,mMning "vigorously," "with force,., amc>ng eommentatore whether the exhorta- e.re very frequent in medical writers; ,b.-&.,..,, tion WM addressed to Apolloa, as the R.V, ia also found in the LXX. of Josh. vL 7 takes it, or to the brethren at Oorinth as ':t.11µ…
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brought before the bema of Gallio, and to hear their common praises when the con- epimcy was defeated and the apostle was eet free. We no longer wonder to read that when Paul eet sail for Syria, Aquila and I'riscilla went too (eh. xviii. 18), and all that follows follows so naturally. 'fheir labour at Ephesus as the ap…
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ledge, however ditferin~ among themselves in the fundamental principles or their sercral schemes, agree in the scornful rejection of "the testimony or Jesus Obrist." The Church meanwhile pursues her unwavering course, She holds in her hand the lamp of that truth which she did not invent, but which she received from God…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vere. 1-11.-Truth before the citadel. When the apostle of Jesus Christ confronted the heathenism of Corinth, we may say that, in his person, Divine truth was openin"' its attack on the very citadel of sin; such was its" abysmal profligacy," its intem',er".: ance, its dishonesty, its supe…
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form, the one and only thing which oould perpetua~ and immortalize It. They regarded the apostle as a renegade, &11 an iconoclast, as a traitor; their opposition became hatred ; their hatred grew into murderous passion ; their passion seized on the earliest opportunity to compass his imprisonment or death. We see in…
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God doee not directly lend his people into the whole truth· he wi~hes us to learn hi, mind by the tee.chi'.1g of events, as the early Christians ca.:Oe ,:radually, and through the lessons of Providence, to 11nderstand that they were emanc,ipated from the injunc- tions 1md prohibitions of t.bat which was "positive" in t…
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TI. THAT BlTMDLEn DISCIPLES OAN RENDER VALUADLE BERVIOE TO TIIOSE WBO ARB DIVi'I'-<'FISBED. (\'ers. 26, 27.) 1. The service of enlightenment. This wRs rendered to .A.polios by Aquila and l~riscilla (ver. 26). They hRd learnt "the way of God " from Paul, e.nd they could and did teach it to A polios, so that he understoo…
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,o old prover?s sa:y:, (3) ~is sa?bath empl?Ym;mt. "Every sahbath." Unwearierl teal charactonzes him. F111thf□ l in that which 1s leil.St, he is faithfol in that which Is much. The week-day work and the sabbath consecration help one another. Work makes the sacred rest sweet; and the sacred. rest gives new energy for wo…
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Vers. 1-4.-.A gUmpse into apostolic life. Corinth. Change of method. In Athens a public challenge offered both to the philosophers and to the citizens generally in the market-place, as well as reasonings with the Jews in the syDagogue. In Corinth, a more mercantile and less intellectual city, the preaching was more p…
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the gospel the opportunity to lay hold of Greece as a. whole. "The Lord had much people in the.t city." 'l'he two elements of difficulty evinced in the Epistles were thA Greek contentiousness, especially developed at Corinth, and the Hensual tendencies of a voluptuous, wealthy people. Hence the importance of the Jewish…
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Vers. 8, 4.- Tent-maJcing a sermon. Paul has left the mockers, the procrastinators, and the believers, each to rea.p the fruits he has sown, and, departing from A.thens, has reached Corinth. And here we find him the centre of so natural a touch of history, that it speaks its own fidelity. No "cunningly devised" history…
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RIGHTLY JllMDilA0ED, 011' THE BELll'-BUPPORTING OHARAOTER 011' CHRISTIANITY. This is it~ honest pride. It asks air ancl light. And it asks love and faith trust and trial. And it thoreupon nsks nothing more,. til_l of H, it ~omes to be asked, ~nd passionately, what devout, grateful, ndorin" return m its Rurpassmg condes…
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be gathered. The true ~erv9:nt, nfter ell, 1-0ves work, and loves his Master's work, and must remember that he 1s neither the Master nor gifted with Master's sight and know• l~ge. And with wh_at fre~h aleority hRS he not unf1 equently resumed toil, when amid all thmgs that look agamst himself and his toil, he hears,…
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the sacrifice, tho absolute unqualified loss are what only the omniscierit eye cnn see, an,\ nro such t\int the eye of Jesus_ would "weep" ove_r them. A much happier view of fitness, wlach courted opportunity, and of opportunity which was divinely vouchsafed to fitness, is here before us, Let us observe- I. THE FITNES…
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the be«t. So he had already found his work out of the various fitnesses which lay In him, which_ he had not neglected, not re8isted, not despised. (2) The opportunity of large e.ccess1ons of knowledge are thrown in his we.y, and he embraces them and owns t~em: Possibly_ the tent-me.king couple, man and wife, ~id not or…
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birth. Commerce brought to it sRilors and merchants from all 1:arts of the world, There wae a considerable Greek population, and a large number of Roman settlers. And we may add that the Jewish nation was well represented. St. Paul preached the gospel to them all, and it proved the power of salvation nnto all who belie…
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is sufficient for theee things?" But what is overwhelming responsibility from one point of view is holy joy of service from another point of view. Who wm;ld not will- indy stand with Chri~t, and feel how "he bare our infirmities and carried our sorrows"? "It is enough for the servant that he be as his Lord." II. Ti…
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tlon, so that he felt everything most keenly. Such natures yearn for love with an Intense passion, and they feel slights and unkindness, and seemin:i: failure and unfaith- fulness, in those they trust, with a passion equally intense. They have altogether higher joys than most mon can know, but they have answering sorro…
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heal religious quA.rrela, and it is practically wiser to treA.t them as we treat spreading diseases-stamp them out, by the refusal to recognize them, Let them die out; and this they will surely do it we take care not to fan the flame, Ill THE OLAIMB OF RELIGIOUS TRUTH AND DUTY M..! r NEVER BB BET ABIDE WITH ooN'l'BMPT…
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the fact le that, to the end of their da7s, they voluntarily keep up their old habil8 and practices, preferring to set themselves within what they find to be well-ordered limitations, In such cases it is rather an over-severe consistency than anything liko inconsistency which we find. Modern evil rather goes in the dir…
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restless dispositions are too easily attracted by horetical notions, St. Paul had t.o deal with all these forms of evil, and he strove t.o correct them by establishing mQre firmly than before, in mind and heart, the great Christian foundations ; going ovi,r, again anrl again, the "first principles or the doctrine of…
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Ver. 11.-Aml when for when, A.V.: into obedient," and translating as if '' hnr_rlAn_ed" forin A.V. Into the Name of the Lord Jeeua and "disobedient" were two ac!Jecti vc~. (eoo cb. viii. 16). So too eh. x. 48 of Corneliusdestroys this consequence. Speaking evil o.nd his compo.ny, "He commo.nded thorn lo be of; 1<a1<0>.…
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Ver. 12.-In,omud, for ,o, A.V.; wnto the The p0ssesAed then fell to the ground, e.nd nck ,oere carried am,y from hu body for the exorcist commnnded the evil spirit in the from liill body ,oere brought unto the 8 icl,, nenie of Solomon never to return, nnd then A.V.: ,oent out for ,~ent out of them, A.V. recited one of …
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does not seem to have b11d any hostility to meant, the snm would amount to £700() the foith, for our Lord speaks of him ns one (' Speaker's Commentary'). It is in favour who "is not ago.inst us." But those eons of drachmm being meo.nt that, with the ex- of Bcevn were among the unbelieving Jews ception of Josh. vii. 21 …
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rrn<l Gnlatin to Ephesus. Silas, who had R<'peated mention is mnde in Diodorua been Timothy's companion on the former Sirnlus, Ammianus Me.roellinus, and else- 'l"isit to 111:ncedonia, seems to have left St. 'l'l'h~re, of gold or silver shrines (va&,), which Penl, possibly at Jerusalem, from wh~noe wrro offered to d…
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ceded by &1rb, as eh. xiii. 20; Josh. viii. 20; of Mncedonl11, and Gains of Dorbe. But x. 27 (LXX.), Bnd the word 1ta.8a1pi,v is also Gaius (or Cains, as it is written in Lo.tin) specinlly used of lowering the honour of sny was such B common name, and the Jews so one. All Asis and the world. This is scBrcely often !…
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Ver. 32.-Jn oonfwu,n for 1111nfwed, A.V. 6 .,.011.µ71p&s, one who is bold and violent. ( o-u-y1«xu1d,,.,,: oomp. uv-yxou,..,,, ver. 29). The In medical language, lta.TauTl>..11.o, is to more put, etc. A graphic picture of en soothe, oalm, eto., and </l<lpµ.11,ca ,caTaO"Ta.11. T11<.t excited mob led by interested a.n…
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"lending to execution," eto. (Luke xxi. 12; under the Roman government preserved xxiil. 1: oh. vi. 12: xvii. J!): xviii. 12; their rights and Iiborties, and the privilege Mork xiii. 11). Robbers of temples; l,po<1v• of popular assemblies. The town-clerk, ;>.01, found only here in the New Testament. therefore, gave t…
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