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Acts 17:11

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Now these for these, A.V.; examining for and searched, A.V.; these for those, A.V. Note the immense advantage which the preachers and the hearers had in the previous knowledge of the Scriptures gained by the Beraeans in the synagogue.

Note also the mutual light shed by the Old and New Testaments the one upon the other.

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