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Selected Verse: Acts 8:31 - King James

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Ac 8:31 King James And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

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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]
How can I, except some man guide me?--Beautiful expression at once of humility and docility; the invitation to Philip which immediately followed, to "come up and sit with him," being but the natural expression of this.
 
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