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Act 16:15. Οἶκος, her household) Who can believe that in so many families there was not a single infant? and that the Jews, who were accustomed to circumcise their infants, and the Gentiles, to purify their infants by washings (lustrations), did not also present them for baptism?-παρεκάλεσε, she besought) The mind of believers clings to those by whom they have been converted.-εἰ, if, seeing that) It expresses in this passage, not doubt, but the force of making petition.-κεκρίκατε, ye have judged) They had so judged, in the fact that they had conferred baptism on her.-παρεβιάσατο, she constrained) For the sake of avoiding appearance of evil, they did not immediately comply, lest they should seem to have come into Macedonia for the sake of livelihood.