9 Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:



Ver. 9. But speak, and hold not thy peace] i.e. Speak out the whole truth plainly and plentifully, be not for any self-respects found guilty of a sinful silence. Inveniar sane superbus, &c., modo impii silentii non arguar, dum Dominus patitur, saith Luther (Epist. ad Staupic.). Let me be counted proud, passionate, impudent, anything, so that I betray not the Lord’s cause by a cowardly silence.