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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 16:22 - 16:22
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the multitude rose up together against them - so Act 19:28, Act 19:34; Act 21:30; Luk 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 Act 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 (Act 16:37), to appease the popular rage. Thrice, it seems, Paul endured this indignity (2Co 11:25).