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Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679 • SECTION 1335

Annotations upon the Holy Bible — Volume 2 — Section 1335

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7 The Chief Captain ſhews by* this, his care, both for <t. Paul, and for the young man roo ; for had it been known that he had diſcovered their conſpiracy, they would have ſought his life, and might divers ways have taken it away ; and as for Paul. being diſappointed in this, they would have made other at. tewpts againſt him.

23 And he called unto him two centurions, ſaying, Make » ready two hundred foldiers to go to Czlarea, 2nd « horſemen threeſcore and ten, and 7 ſpear-men two hundred, at the « third hour of the night,

» Two hundred were tc uſual proportion or number of men which were under the rwo Centurions ; fo rthar they were com- manded to have their Companies in readineſs. s Horſemen being viually added for defence of. their Foot-Soldiers, # Spear-men, as they are called here, were fuch as handled, or threw their FJavelins or Darts with their right hand. Some think them to bave been ſuch as ourSerjeants,who.take men into cuſtody ; others, that they were Soidiers raiſed out of foreign Nations, and light.

Iy Armed. & Partly becauſe in thoſe hot countries it is very |

troubleſome to travel by day, and partly for the greater ſecurity of Paul and ſuch as went with him,

24 And provide them beaſts, that they may ſet Paul on, and » biing him fafe unto Felix the pover- NOUr.

w What a ftrong Guard and Retinue does !God by his Provie dence get together for the ſate-guarding of Paul ! None of all theſe intended the leaſt good unto him ; but God can make uſe of them as cffectually as, if they had had the greateſt good will for him.

25 And he wrote a letter x after this manner :

x Ir is not certain whether the following words were the Let- tcr its {c1f,, or only the Sum or Contents of the Letter.

26 Claudius Lyſias, unto the y molt excellent go- Yernour z Felix, ſenderb greeting.

great, and fo called in memory of his 'Fath*r Awripare: ; it vis about Seventeen Leagues oP. Jeruſalem , plcaſintly fitu.ted upon the Mediterranean Sea, between' joppa and Ce/area,

32 On the morrow they lcfe the horſemen to 5 with him, and h returned to the caſtle.

þ The Footmen returned to the Caſtle or Fort ct Antmisn Jeruſalem, from whence they did ſct our, there being n0 tear any ſuch deſign upon Pal at that diſtance from Jernſalem, hi! the Horſemen might not eaſily avoid.

33 Who whenthey came to ; Cxfarea, and deitre red the epiſtle to the governour, preſznted # Pau} all before him.

i Ceſares Stratonir, as it was called, to difference !t fron the other. k They preſented Paul, as being their 7! whom they had ſafely kepr, and now delivered according 10: pointment.

34 And when the governour had read the len, © asked of / what province he was. And when he und ſtood that he was 2 of Cilicia ;

I Paleſtine and the Countries thereabouts being divided - ſeveral Exarchies or Juriſdictions, the Governours were loth to infringe the limits of one another. m A _— in 4fs miner, in which was Tarſus where Paul was boy from his birth-place he is reckoned to belong t0 that VINCE.

25 I will : hearthee, ſaid he, when thine » accu are alſo come. And he commanded him to be Kept Herod's judgment:- hall.

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