And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto your servants, that with all boldness they may speak your word,
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Interlinear Gloss
AD 1480
In saying, their threats, they do not mean this or that thing specifically threatened, but only in general, the fact of their threatening, perhaps, as being formidable. In fact, the writer is concise in his narrative. And this they said not because they would themselves deprecate any hardship, but for the preaching’s sake.
that they may speak your word with all confidence:
Observe how they affirm God to be the Author of their confidence; and how they ask all for God’s sake, nothing for their own glory or ambition. They promise for their own part, that they will not be dismayed.
