who have for my life, &c. Lit., and better, who did for my life lay down their own neck, (not necks). An entirely unknown occasion, on which Aquila and his wife had risked their lives for St Paul's. "Laid down:" the figure is of presenting the neck, or throat, to the executioner. Whether the word is onlyfigurative here, we cannot determine.

all the churches of the Gentiles To whom they had, by their self-devotion, preserved their Apostle.

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