Acts 28:8

And it came to pass, that [R.V."and it was so, that"]. The R. V.is the better modern rendering. The expression means "It happened that, &c.," not that after the arrival of St Paul the father fell ill, which might be taken as the meaning of the A. V.

of a fever and of a bloody flixe [R. V."of fever and dysentery"]. The words are technical such as a physician, as St Luke is reputed to have been, would be likely to use in describing the disease. The first, which is in the plural number, implies the fits of feverwhich occur at intervals in such diseases as ague.