Verse | Translation | Text |
Ac 27:42 | King James | And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape. |
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
the soldiers' counsel was to hill the prisoners, lest any . . . should escape--Roman cruelty, which made the keepers answerable for their prisoners with their own lives, is here reflected in this cruel proposal. |