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Acts 20:19

Acts 20:19

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

Lowliness for humility, A.V.; tears for many tears, A.V. and T.R.; with trials for temptations, A.V.; plots for lying in wait, A.V. Plots ( ἐπιβουλαῖς); comp. , and note. There is no special account of Jewish plots in St.

Luke's narrative of St. Paul's sojourn at Ephesus. But from , , and probably 33, we may gather how hostile the unbelieving Jews were to him.

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