This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ...Thus did they challenge his reverence, not only by the miracle, but also by their behaviour. For how did Paul cry out? He cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm, for we are all here. Thou seest at once his freedom from vain-glory and arrogance, and his fellow-feeling. He said not, " It is for us these wonders have been wrought," but as though be were merely one of the prisoners, he said, For we are all here. And yet, even though they had not before this loosed themselves, nor had done so by means of the miracle, still they might have been silent, and have set all that were bound at liberty. For had they held their peace, and had they not with their loud crying stayed his hand, he would have thrust the sword through The jailor's conduct proved him worthy of salvation. 189 his throat. Wherefore also Paul cried out, because he had Homil. VIII been cast into the inner ward: as though he had said, 1 To thine own injury hast thou done this, that thou hast thrust in so far those that could deliver thee from the danger. However they imitated not the treatment they had received at his hands; though had he died, all would have escaped. Thou seest that they chose rather to remain in bonds, than to suffer him to perish. Hence too might he reason within himself, " Had they been sorcerers, doubtless they would have set the others at liberty, and have released themselves from their bonds: " (for it is likely that many such had also been imprisoned.) He was the more amazed, in that having often received sorcerers in charge, yet he had witnessed nothing done like this. A sorcerer never would have shaken the foundations, so as to startle the jailor from sleep, and thus render his own escape more difficult. Now, however, let us...