also round the throne four and twenty thrones, and on these thrones four and twenty Presbyters seated, who were clad in white raiment with golden crowns upon their heads.

Or what king sets out to fight against another king without first sitting down to deliberate whether with ten thousand men he can encounter the king who is attacking him with twenty thousand?

Then the second came and said, 'Your five pounds has made twenty-five, sir.'

Now six stone water-jars were standing there, for the Jewish rites of 'purification,' each holding about twenty gallons.

But as that servant went away, he met one of his fellow-servants who owed him twenty pounds, and seizing him by the throat he said, 'Pay your debt!'

Now during these days Peter stood up among the brothers (there was a crowd of about a hundred and twenty persons all together).

On taking soundings they found twenty fathoms, and a little further on, when they sounded again, they found fifteen.

Nor must we commit immorality, as some of them did ??and in a single day twenty-three thousand of them fell.