save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city The oldest MSS. add "unto me." Rev. Ver."testifieth unto me." The Holy Ghost had called him to the work (Acts 13:2) and moved the disciples (Acts 21:4) and Agabus (Acts 21:11) to warn him of the sufferings which were at hand. We may suppose too that such warnings came more frequently than St Luke has recorded them.

saying … abide me The two nouns are combined in Philippians 1:16, "supposing to add affliction to my bonds," where the sense is, as most likely here, mental grief in addition to bodily constraint. Such "afflictions" were harder to bear than the "bonds."

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