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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Acts 23:12

certain of. The texts omit.

banded together. having made. coalition, i.e. of the two sects. Greek. sustrophe. See note on Acts 19:40.

bound... curse. Greek. anathematizo. Only here, verses: Acts 14:21, and Mark 14:71, where see note.

saying, &c. Josephus records. vow taken by ten men to kill Herod the Great. In. papyrus from Oxyrhyiichus, in the Bodleian Library, there is. letter from an Egyptian boy, threatening that, if his father will not take him to Alexandria, he would neither eat nor drink.

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