 | Aeschylus - 1839 - 442 Seiten
...among the Jews, who " bound themselves under a curse (акгое/шткгак rátirois) saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul:" Acts xxiii. I2.J. The f On the variation of the breathing genera! relation to others : compare, in in this word,... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1839 - 516 Seiten
...he may retract it, but the wise men say he cannot." See also Juvenal, Sat. vi. 17. ACTS xxiii. 12. Saying they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.] It was a common form of a vow or oath with the Jews, that " I will not eat." Sometimes they only vowed... | |
 | David Everard Ford - 1844 - 134 Seiten
...ask the Christian reader, who demurs, what advice he would have given to the men who had vowed that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul, Acts xxiii. 12. Perhaps, he answers — that they had bound themselves to do an unlawful act, and that therefore the... | |
 | Thomas Kerchever Arnold - 1847 - 240 Seiten
...def.), he will tell us, &c. (John . iv. 5.) (Lut.) When he shall have come, he will tell us, &c. (4) (Eng.) (Saying) they would neither eat nor drink,...eat nor drink, till they should have killed Paul. (5) (Eng.) As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me (2 Sam. xxii. 46). (Lat.) As soon as they... | |
 | William Emblow - 1847 - 98 Seiten
...this, did the Jews conspire to kill Paul ? A. Yes: more than forty bound themselves under a curse, saying, " they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul." Q. How was he delivered from this conspiracy ? A. Claudius Lysias the chief captain, received intelligence,... | |
 | Theodora Elizabeth Lynch - 1850 - 288 Seiten
...he will show them his covenant." It seems that more than forty Jews had bound themselves by an oath, saying, they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. The common form of this oath was abstinence only from particular things, but to make this oath very... | |
 | N Sneyd Taylor - 1872 - 374 Seiten
...some of the Jews make to kill Paul? — Forty of them bound themselves under a curse, saying — that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. — Acts xxiii. 12. How was Paul delivered from them ? — Paul's sister's son heard of it, and told Paul and the chief... | |
 | Luke Woodard - 1875 - 458 Seiten
...: a youth overhearing the " more than forty men mutually bind themselves, under a great curse, that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul," Acts xxiii: 12-35. A.lso his appeal to Caesar, one of the most natural things fora wronged citizen to do, was a... | |
 | Charles John Ellicott (bp. of Gloucester) - 1879 - 348 Seiten
...assassins, pledged to any iniquity ; such were the forty men " who bound themselves under a curse, saying they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul" (Acts xxiii. 12; see Note there). Some of these desperadoes unluckily escaped the swords of the Romans, and fled to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 168 Seiten
...Deuteronomy vi. 13. Certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. Acts xxiii. 12. 4> OPPORTUNITY. 4> Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near. Isaiah... | |
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And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse,' — merely an oath, not a malediction — 'saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul' (Acts, xxiii, 12): Vulgate, 'Collegerunt... 
