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Selected Verse: Acts 27:42 - King James

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Ac 27:42 King James And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

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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.
 
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