acts 16:22 And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them. - Free Bible Online

acts 16:22 And the crowd rose up together against them, and the chief magistrates tore their robes off them, and proceeded to order [them] to be beaten with rods.


      22. the multitude rose up together against them--so Ac 19:28, 34; 21:30; Lu 23:18.
      the magistrates rent off their--Paul's and Silas'
      clothes--that is, ordered the lictors, or rod-bearers, to tear them off, so as to expose their naked bodies (see on Ac 16:37). The word expresses the roughness with which this was done to prisoners preparatory to whipping.
      and commanded to beat them--without any trial (Ac 16:37), to appease the popular rage. Thrice, it seems, Paul endured this indignity (2Co 11:25).

JFB.


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