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Acts 28:4-6
New Catholic Bible
Acts 28:4-6
New Catholic Bible
4 On seeing the snake hanging from his hand, the natives said to one another, “This man must be a murderer. Although he escaped from the sea, Justice[a] has not allowed him to live.”
5 However, he shook off the snake into the fire and suffered no harm. 6 They were expecting him to swell up or drop dead, but after waiting for a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.
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- Acts 28:4 Justice: a personification of divine avenging justice.