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Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 25:6

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Acts25:6

6 And when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he went down unto Cesarea, and the next day sitting in the judgment-seat, commanded Paul to be b[illegible: 1 letter]ought.

The Margin gives an account of a divers reading, unto which might be added another, viz. Eight or Ten days; which reading many follow, and is according unto the usual expression of such a short space of time, which need not to be exactly set down. Thus tho God hath provided so, as there is little or no variety in setting down those Truths or Doctrines in Scripture which concern faith and manners, or our believing and holy living; yet in Circumstances which (tho they pertain to compleat the History of Genealogies in Scripture) are not necessary to be so exactly known, God left them not so designed, to exercise us in this state, wherein we know but in part, 1 Cor. 13.9. Fundamental Truths are not of such a depth but a Lamb may wade or walk in them; but there are less material things of such a profundity, that an Elephant may swim in them, and men of the highest understanding and deepest reach must cry out, [non-Latin text not transcribed].

Marginal references: Or, as some Copies read, no [illegible: 1 word] than eight [illegible: 1 word] ten days.

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