Acts 28:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

saw. Greek. eidon. App-133.

beast. Greek. therion. See Acts 11:6.

hang. hanging.

on. from. Greek. ek. App-104.

among themselves. to (Greek. pros. App-104.) one another.

man. Greek. anthropos. App-123.

though he hath. Literally having.

the sea. out of (Greek. ek) the sea.

yet. Omit.

vengeance. Greek. he dike. App-177. The Greeks personified Justice, vengeance, and other ideas; as we do when we speak of Nemesis.

Acts 28:4

4 And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.