Acts 20:26

26 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.