Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
Ver. 26. I take you to record] Happy is that man that can be acquitted by himself private, in public by others, in both by God.
I am pure from the blood of all men] The apostle hath an eye here (doubtless) to that flaming place of Ezekiel 3:18; "His blood will I require at thine hands;" which words are fulmina, non verba, saith Erasmus, not words, but lighting bolts.