And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
Ver. 2. Had commanded all Jews, &c.] Wicked men are sick of the saints, and long to be rid of them, not considering that they bear up the pillars of the earth, and that God gratifies his children with the preservation of the wicked, as he did Paul with the lives of those infidels that were in the ship with him, Acts 27:24. Howbeit they are frequently as foolish as this Claudius who banished God's true servants; or, as the stag in the emblem, which by biting the boughs off the trees under which she lay hidden from the hounds and hunters, bewrayed and betrayed herself into their hands.