Acts 23:10-15
fearing Acts 23:27, Acts 19:28-31, Acts 21:30-36; Ps 7:2, Ps 50:22; Mic 3:3; Jas 1:19, Jas 3:14-18; Jas 4:1-2 to take Acts 22:24 the Lord Acts 2:25, Acts 18:9, Acts 27:23-24; Ps 46:1-2, Ps 109:31; Isa 41:10, Isa 41:14, Isa 43:2; Jer 15:19-21; Matt 28:20; John 14:18; 2Cor 1:8-10 Be Acts 27:22, Acts 27:25; Matt 9:2, Matt 14:27; John 16:33 for Acts 19:21, Acts 20:22, Acts 22:18, Acts 28:23-28; Rom 1:15-16; Phil 1:13; 2Tim 4:17 must Acts 28:30-31; Isa 46:10; John 11:8-10 certain Acts 23:21, Acts 23:30, Acts 25:3; Ps 2:1-3, Ps 64:2-6; Isa 8:9-10; Jer 11:19; Matt 26:4 bound 1Kgs 19:2; 2Kgs 6:31; Matt 27:25; Mark 6:23-26 under a curse or, with an oath of execration, Lev 27:29; Josh 6:26, Josh 7:1, Josh 7:15; Neh 10:29; Matt 26:74 *Gr: 1Cor 16:22; Gal 3:13 that Such execrable vows as these were not unusual among the Jews, who, from their perverted traditions, challenged to themselves a right of punishing without any legal process, those whom they considered transgressors of the law; and in some cases, as in the case of one who had forsaken the law of Moses, they thought they were justified in killing them. They therefore made no scruple of acquainting the chief priests and elders with their conspiracy against the life of Paul, and applying for their connivance and support; who, being chiefly of the sect of the Sadducees, and the apostle's bitterest enemies, were so far from blaming them for it, that they gladly aided and abetted them in this mode of dispatching him, and on its failure they soon afterwards determined upon making a similar attempt (Acts 25:2-3). If these were, in their bad way, conscientious men, they were under no necessity of perishing for hunger, when the providence of God had hindered them from accomplishing their vow; for their vows of abstinence from eating and drinking were as easy to loose as to bind, any of their wise men or Rabbis having power to absolve them, as Dr. Lightfoot has shown from the Talmud. 1Sam 14:24, 1Sam 14:27-28, 1Sam 14:40-44; Ps 31:13 which 2Sam 15:12, 2Sam 15:31; John 16:2 Ps 52:1-2; Isa 3:9; Jer 6:15, Jer 8:12; Hos 4:9; Mic 7:3 that he Acts 25:3; Ps 21:11, Ps 37:32-33; Prov 1:11-12, Prov 1:16, Prov 4:16; Isa 59:7; Rom 3:14-16
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