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hii autem erant nobiliores eorum qui sunt thessalonicae qui susceperunt verbum cum omni aviditate cotidie scrutantes scripturas si haec ita se haberen
these were more noble than those in thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

et ipse nominatus inter tres robustos qui erant inter triginta nobiliores verumtamen usque ad tres non pervenerat fecitque eum david sibi auricularium a secret
he was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. and david set him over his guard.