Acts 23:12

certain of . The texts omit.

banded together = having made a coalition, i.e. of the two sects. Greek. sustrophe. See note on Acts 19:40 .

bound . . . curse . Greek. anathematizo. Only here, verses: Acts 14:21 , and Mark 14:71 , where see note.

saying, &c . Josephus records a vow taken by ten men to kill Herod the Great. In a papyrus from Oxyrhyiichus, in the Bodleian Library, there is a letter from an Egyptian boy, threatening that, if his father will not take him to Alexandria, he would neither eat nor drink.