...falfe Wtinej/es 5 Stephen they ftoned, out of pure Zeal, in a popular Tumult ; Forty of them folemnly bound themfelves under a Curfe, that they would neither eat nor drink, till they had killed St. ^Paul : But all this, and a great deal more, our Saviour had foretold they would do, when he told...

...much as threats which we are not able to enforce. It is told us in the Acts " that forty of the Jews bound themfelves " under a curfe, that they would neither eat nor drink " till they had killed Paul." We hear no more of thofe Jews, though the apoftie furvived their menaces. I natter myfelf that...

...much a*threats which we are not able to enforce. It is told us in the Adls " that forty of the Jews ** bound themfelves under a curfe, that they " would neither eat nor drink till they had " killed Paul." We hear no more of thofe Jews, though the apoftle furvived their menaces.. I flatter myfelf...

...much as threats which we are not able to enforce. It is told us in the Afts, " that forty of the Jews bound themfelves •' under a curfe, that they would neither eat nor drink ' till they had killed Paul." We hear no more of thofe Jews, though the Apoftle furvived their menaces. I flatter myfelf that...

...Lord might be difpatched. In the cafe of St. Paul, more than forty men had bound themfehes by an oath, that they would neither eat nor drink 'till they had killed him, Acts xxiii. 21 ; it doth not appear that the chief men of the Jews, at the time of our Lord's death,...

...prifoner for his profeffion of chriftianity, two years in Judea, where forty men entered into a bond that they 'would neither eat nor drink till they had killed him, Acts xxiii. 12. but nothing is faid of their attempt to find out his artifices to deceive the people...

...than the forty Jews, who bound themfelves with a great * Ecclef. vii. 14.. ° Afts xiv. 22. C curie, curfe, that they would neither eat nor drink till they* had killed Paulp." The evening arrived; I heard them found to arms, attended with a band of rough mufic. Some...

...much as threats which we are not able to enforce. It is told us in the Acts " that forty of the Jews bound themfelves " under a curfe, that they would neither eat nor drink " till they had killed Paul." We hear no more of thofe Jews, though the apoftle furvived their menaces. I flatter myfelf that...

...Pharifees and Sadducees, who perfecuted the apoftle Paul, formed a confpiracy againft his life, and bound themfelves under a curfe, that they would neither eat nor drink for a thing of nought. They endeavoured, by various means, to torn afide holy and upright men from...

...affafiination, by appealing to the tribunal of Cadar ; " more than forty m Jews bound themfelyes by a " curfe, that they would neither eat nor drink, till " they had killed Paul." The apoftle, on difcovering the confpiracy, difclofes it fecretly to the chief captain, whofe...