7 And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man’s house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.



Ver. 7. Whose house joined hard to the synagogue] Quo magis pungeret Iudaeos; for this Justus was (likely) a Gentile. But they were toties puncti et repuncti, minime tamen ad resipiscentiam compuncti, like those bears in Pliny, they could not be awakened with the sharpest prickles; such a dead lethargy had the devil cast them into.