 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 460 pages
...inspired other motives for the interview, than those of religion. For he. hoped, says the historian, that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose kirn : wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with Mm, The case, we see, is well altered.... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1813 - 280 pages
...concubine. Judges xix. 1, 2,3. SERMON XIX. p. 323. FELIXES BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS PAUL EXAMINED. He hoped, also, that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him. Acts xxiv. 26. SERMON XX. p. 234. THE PRODIGAL SON. • And not many days after, the younger son gathered... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...whieh was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, & heard him eoneerning the faith in Christ. 26 He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him ; wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and eommuned with him. 2? But, after two years, Poreius Festus... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 508 pages
...conscience for gain ; and Felix perverted justice to obtain a bribe, concerning whom it is said, He hoped that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him, Acts xxiv. 16. And we read of others that will be rich, that is, who immoderately pursue the gain of... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 512 pages
...conscience for gain ; and Felix perverted justice to obtain a bribe, concerning whom it is said, He hoped that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him, Acts xxiv. 16. And we read 6f others that will be rich, that is, who immoderately pursue the gain of... | |
 | Richard Stack - 1815 - 328 pages
...seed. Of which we have an extraordinary and melancholy proof in the words that follow; " He hoped also, that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him : wherefore he sent for him the oftencr, an;l communed with him."—He knew that Paul had been commissioned... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 572 pages
...evasions are here, when the truth is so plainly set before him ! Nay, worse than evasions : for he hoped that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him ! wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him: but because the Apostle would not use... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1817 - 746 pages
...way for this time ; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thce. 26 f He hoped also that a money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him : • Exwt. 23. 8. seen her, fell desperately in 1оте with her, ami by means of a pretended Jewish... | |
 | Edward Cooper - 1818 - 362 pages
...the Apostle often and communed with him :" yet we are expressly told, that it was only in the " hope that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him." On hearing this account of the Roman Governor, we may be ready to say, ' What ' a pity it was he acted... | |
 | Francis Atterbury (bp. of Rochester.) - 1820 - 358 pages
...call for thee ! But he soon recovers from his fright ; for it presently follows — He hoped also, that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him ; wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him. We see the seed of the word, sown by... | |
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He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him : wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him. 27 But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room : and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure,... 
