Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Acts 28:1-4 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

1. AND when we had escaped, then we knew that the island was called Melita. But the barbarians shewed us no small courtesy.

2. For kindling a fire, they refreshed us all, because of the present rain, and of the cold.

3. And when Paul had gathered together a bundle of sticks, and had laid them on the fire, a viper coming out of the heat, fastened on his hand.

4. And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging on his hand, they said one to another: Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, who though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance doth not suffer him to live.