 | William Jones - Theology - 1801 - 354 pages
...shipwreck, the last on which I shall at present offer my observations ; this is the counsel of the soldiers to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out and escape. As St. Paul himself, being ti prisoner, must have fallen a sacrifice in this barba'rous execution,... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broand deliverance. ten with the violence of the waves. 42 And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners,...centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their jurpose, and commanded that hey which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...broken with the violence of the waves. 42 And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lesU any of them should swim out and escape. 43 But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from ttieir purpose, and commanded that they which could swim, should cast themselves first into tlt£ sco,... | |
 | Timothy Kenrick - Bible - 1807 - 538 pages
...stuck fast and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves. ,42. And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out and escape. An inhuman and barbarous proposal, but sufficiently agreeable to the manners of the times. 43. But... | |
 | James Plumptre - Theater - 1809 - 318 pages
...turn'd adrift, she asks, How came we ashore ? he answers, By Providence divine. ," The centurion — commanded that they which could swim, should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land : And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship : and so it came to pass, that... | |
 | Bible - 1809 - 670 pages
...immoveable, but the hinder part was broken by the violence 42 of the waves. Now the counsel of the soldiers was, to kill the prisoners ; lest any of them should swim out, and 43 escape. But the centurion, wishing to preserve Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded... | |
 | James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 452 pages
...swim out and escape. But Julius, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose, Acts xxvii. 43. And commanded that they which could swim, should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land, and the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship ; and so it came to pass, that... | |
 | William Jones - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 522 pages
...shipwreck, the last on which I shall at present offer my observations ; this is the counsel of the soldiers to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out and escape. As St. Paul himself, being a prisoner, must have fallen a sacrifice in this barbarous execution, we... | |
 | Elizabeth Sandham - Bibliography - 1812 - 156 pages
...track where two seas met ; the violence of the waves were such, that the ship became a wreck ; and then the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out and escape ; but the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded that all who... | |
 | Hannah Neale - Bible - 1813 - 394 pages
...soldiers' counsel, in this extremity, was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should make their escape; but the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded that they who could swim should cast themselves into the sea, and get to land. Maria. But how did they escape... | |
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But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose ; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land : <•**) and the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship.... 
