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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Acts 3:17

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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And now, brethren--Our preacher, like his Master, "will not break the bruised reed." His heaviest charges are prompted by love, which now hastens to assuage the wounds it was necessary to inflict. I wot--"know." through ignorance ye did it--(See marginal references, Luk 23:34; Act 13:27; Act 26:9).
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