for some time ago one Theudas started up, pretending to be something extraordinary, who was join'd indeed by about four hundred men: but he was no sooner put to death, than his followers all dispers'd, and were reduc'd to nothing.

God declar'd likewise, "that his posterity should sojourn in a strange land, where they should be enslaved and abused four hundred years.

when he saw the heaven open, and something descending in the form of a great sheet, ty'd at the four corners, and let down to the earth:

then Cornelius said, it is now four days ago that I was fasting, and while I was at prayers in my house, about the ninth hour, a man in bright attire presented himself before me,

saying, as I was at prayers in Joppa, I saw something like a great sheet, tied at the four corners, which descended from heaven, and came just to me.

after these transactions, which lasted about four hundred and fifty years, he gave them judges to the time of the prophet Samuel:

he was one of the seven deacons, and had four daughters all virgins, prophetesses.

yield then to our advice: there are four men here, who have made a vow:

are not you the Egyptian, who lately made an insurrection at the head of four thousand banditti in the desart?

then for fear of striking upon the rocks, they dropt four anchors astern, and lay impatient for the day.