...my voice against them1." This is thought to relate to the death of St. Stephen only. For he says, " And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed,...his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew himV1 Likewise St. Luke in relating the fact says, "And the witnesses laid down their clothes at a...

...consent ; and therefor!! elsewhere we find him indicting himself for this fact, and pleading guilty : " when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also...his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him."2 God chiefly inspects the heart, and if the vote be passed there, writes the man guilty, though...

...afterwards cost him tears and penitent reflections, himself preferring the indictment against himself : " When the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also...his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.v>w Thus prepared they began the tragedy, whose example was soon followed by the multitude* All...

...spirit which had once led him astray, finds a prominent place. — Thus we hear him at one time say, "When the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I...also was standing by, and consenting unto his death?" Acts xii, 20; at another, "who was before a blasphemer and a persecutor." 1 Tim. i, 13. And again,...

...imprisoned and f beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee : Tin Jews ACTS XXII. enraged. 20 B And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and !i consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him. 21 And he said unto me, Depart...

...disciples ; but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple." VER. 19. And I said. m Բe '.4_ 4~ e 92 -odJ 6 .@* Yv c: A eB " *q o\ + P e ^ n R0 R : v Ver. 4. And I said, Lord. — This shows that it was the Lord Jesus, whom Paul saw in a trance...

...thee quickly out of Jerusalem : for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me. 19. And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee. ACTS xxii. 20. And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting...

...to Tarsus." 4. The Apostle's generous deprecation chap. xxii. 19, confirms this view. " And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every...death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him." On his return, for the first time, to the scene of his former persecutions, they would be likely to...

...conscience, and a spur to his exertions ; by what we once find him confessing in words to our Savior: "When the blood of thy martyr, Stephen, was shed,...death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him." One thing is here plainly taught us ; that we never must despair of the church: never at all of the...

...Jerusalem : for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me. 5*{>f%ii >in^ ^Sll 3 1J) And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned, and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee 20 And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, 1 also was standing by, and consenting unto his...