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Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”
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Verse 29. Except these chains. That is, I heartily wish all men in the same condition as myself, not only to be prisoners as I am, but to be Christians, as I am. Witham.
Mos erat antiquis niveis, atrisque lapillis,
His damnare reos, illis absolvere culpa.
—So that ψηφος was a lapillus, or a little stone made use of in giving sentence, and from thence taken for the sentence itself.
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