10And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
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Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.
And when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into the castle, and told Paul.
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-11)Many are the troubles of the righteous, but some way or other the Lord delivereth them out of them all . Paul owned he had experienced the truth of this in the persecutions he had undergone among the Gentiles (see 2 Tim. 3:11): Out of them all the Lord delivered me . And now he finds that he who has delivered does and will deliver. He that delivered him in the foregoing chapter from the tumult of…
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