Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? Beautiful union of manly resoluteness and womanly tenderness, alike removed from mawkishness and stoicism!
For I am ready not to be bound only - q.d., 'If that is all, let it come.'
But also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. It was well he could add this, for he had that also to do at Rome. Those who are familiar with the history of the great Reformation of the 16th century will be reminded here of the heroic answer of Luther, when warned not to go to the Diet of Worms, in 1521-`Though there were as many devils in Worms as there are tiles on the house-tops, I will go!'