And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the
prisoners
Paul, and the rest: this they had not only an inclination to, but
they declared it, and gave it as their opinion, and what they
thought advisable to be done directly:
lest any of them should swim out and escape;
and they should be accountable for them: but this was dreadful
wickedness in them to seek to take away the lives of others, when
they themselves were in so much danger; and monstrous ingratitude
to the Apostle Paul, who had been so much concerned for their
lives, and careful of them, and had been the means of saving
them, and for whose sake they were saved: the devil must have had
a great hand in this.
