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John Gill's Exposition on Acts 19:7

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And all the men were about twelve.] The Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, have not the word “about”; but affirm, that the men were twelve; and indeed the number being so small, the historian might be at a certainty about it: these seem to be the first materials of a Gospel church at Ephesus, which afterwards was very large and flourishing, and very likely were some of the elders of it.
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