1. And having been saved, then they knew that the island is called Melita,
2. and the foreigners were shewing us no ordinary kindness, for having kindled a fire, they received us all, because of the pressing rain, and because of the cold;
3. but Paul having gathered together a quantity of sticks, and having laid [them] upon the fire, a viper--out of the heat having come--did fasten on his hand.
4. And when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said unto one another, `Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, having been saved out of the sea, the justice did not suffer to live;'
5. he then, indeed, having shaken off the beast into the fire, suffered no evil,