3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;



Ver. 3. Whom I serve from my forefathers] Those twelve tribes, that served God instantly, day and night, Act_26:7. That was a desperate resolution of the heathen orator (Cicero, de Nat. Deor. p. iii.), Me ex ea opinione, quam a maioribus accepi de cultu Deorum immortalium, nullius unquam oratio, aut docti, aut indocti movebit. I will never stir an inch from the religion of my forefathers, for any man’s persuasion. Paul forsook his Phariseeism and forefathers to serve God, as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had done with a pure conscience.