For this cause therefore I desired to see you and to speak to you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain.

For this cause therefore I desired to see you and to speak to you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain.

this cause.

Acts 28:17 And after the third day, he called together the chief of the Jews. And when they were assembled, he said to them: Men, brethren, I, having done nothing against the people or the custom of our fathers, was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

Acts 10:29,33 For which cause, making no doubt, I came when I was sent for. I ask, therefore, for what cause you have sent for me? . . .

for the.

Acts 23:6 And Paul, knowing that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, cried out in the council: Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees: concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

Acts 24:15 Having hope in God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection of the just and unjust.

See on

Acts 26:6,7 And now for the hope of the promise that was made by God to the fathers, do I stand subject to judgment: . . .

this chain.

Acts 28:16 And when we were come to Rome, Paul was suffered to dwell by himself, with a soldier that kept him.

;) a mode of custody which Dr. Lardner has shown was in use among the Romans. It is in exact conformity, therefore, with the truth of Paul's situation at this time, that he declares himself to be 'an ambassador in a chain,' [en halusis,] (Ep.

6:20;) and the exactness is the more remarkable, as [halusis,] a chain is no where used in the singular number to express any other kind of custody.

Acts 26:29 And Paul said: I would to God that both in a little and in much, not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, should become such as I also am, except these bands.

Ephesians 3:1 For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ, for you Gentiles:

Ephesians 4:1 I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called:

Ephesians 6:20 For which I am an ambassador in a chain: so that therein I may be bold to speak according as I ought.

Philippians 1:13 So that my bands are made manifest in Christ, in all the court and in all other places.

Colossians 4:18 The salutation of Paul with my own hand. Be mindful of my bands. Grace be with you. Amen.

2 Timothy 1:10 But is now made manifest by the illumination of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath destroyed death and hath brought to light life and incorruption by the gospel.

2 Timothy 2:9 Wherein I labour even unto bands, as an evildoer. But the word of God is not bound.