| Thomas Bowen (chaplain.) - 1820 - 360 Seiten
...midnight Paul and Silas, supported by the testimony of a good conscience, prayed, and sung praises to God, and the prisoners heard them; and suddenly there...shaken ; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's chains were loosed. The keeper of the prison, awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1822 - 432 Seiten
...received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises...doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed. And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out... | |
| E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 Seiten
...voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the Lord, they shall cry aloud from the sea. Acts xvi. 25. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. Jam. v. 13. (See above.) Luke i. 63. And bis mouth was. opened immediately, and his tongue loosed,... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 232 Seiten
...midnight, they were praying, and singing praises to God, and the prisoners were listening to them ; when suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and the doors instantly opened, and the chains of all the prisoners fell off. Then the jailor awaking from... | |
| Edward Bickersteth - 1822 - 312 Seiten
...xii, 12. When. Paul and Silas were thrown into prison, they comforted each other by social prayer. " Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God ; and the prisoners heard them." Acts xvi, 25. When " Moses' hands were heavy, Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one... | |
| 1822 - 298 Seiten
...the prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sung praises unto God, and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earth' quake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, aud immediately the doors were opened,... | |
| Edward Bickersteth - 1822 - 330 Seiten
...xii, 12. When Paul and Silas were thrown into prison, they comforted each other by social prayer. " Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God ; and the prisoners heard them." Acts xvi, 25. When " Moses' hands were heavy, Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one... | |
| Abner Kneeland - 1823 - 438 Seiten
...25 And at midnight, Paul and Silas prayed.and sang praises to God : and the prisoners heard them. 26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that...shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and the bands of all were loosed. 27 And the gaoler awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison-doors... | |
| John William Cunningham - 1823 - 378 Seiten
...dungeon," and from prisoners with their " feet fast in the stocks," that the notes of joy are heard : " At midnight, Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God; and the prisoners heard them." The other prisoners — those captives who were ignorant of Christ, whose minds were " fast bound in"... | |
| 1823 - 872 Seiten
...prison. Towards midnight, as Paul and Silas were singing hymns and praises to God, on a sudden there ivas a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and all the doors flew open at the same time, and the fetters of the prisoners burst asunder. The gaoler... | |
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