Acts 5:33. They were cut to the heart. Literally, ‘they were cut asunder as with a saw' (so the Vulgate, dissecabantur).

Took counsel to slay them. To carry out such a sentence, the sanction of the Roman Government must have been first obtained, unless they had effected their purpose by having recourse to one of those hurried, arbitrary procedures which some Roman governors, to win popularity, connived at. This was the case in the summary execution of St. Stephen the deacon.

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