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Hospitality

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Bradford contrasts the Indians’ cruelty to the Puritans with the “unusual kindness” shown to Paul and his companions by the natives of the island of Malta, as recorded in ACTS 27 : 1-28 : 10, after Paul was shipwrecked there: “It is recorded in Scripture as a mercy to the Apostle and his shipwrecked company, that the barbarians showed them no small kindness in…

Captives of Philippi

Speaking of the drug that transforms him into Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll says in chapter 10 that it, “shook the doors of the prison-house of my disposition; and like the captives of Philippi, that which stood within ran forth.” Stevenson had obviously read ACTS 16 : 16-33. That Biblical passage confirms that while in Philippi, Paul cast a demon out of a female slave.