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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 23:2 - 23:2
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the high priest ... commanded ... to smite him on the mouth - a method of silencing a speaker common in the East to this day [Hacket]. But for a judge thus to treat a prisoner on his “trial,” for merely prefacing his defense by a protestation of his integrity, was infamous.