Acts 5:40

40 And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them , they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

Ver. 40. And to him they agreed ] So did the enraged people to the elders, alleging the example of Micah the Morasthite, Jeremiah 26:18 . See the use and efficacy of history, which hath its name, say some, παρα το ισταναι τον ρουν , of stopping the stream of violence.