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Act_12:18-19. What had become of the (vanished) Peter (Luk_1:66; Joh_21:21), whether accordingly (under these circumstances, Klotz, ad Devar. p. 176, comp. Baeumlein, Partik. p. 34) the wonderful escape was capable of no explanation—this inquiry was the object of consternation ( τάραχος ) among the soldiers who belonged to the four τετραδία , Act_12:4, because they feared the vengeance of the king in respect to those who had served on that night-watch. And Herod actually caused those who had been the φύλακες of the prison at the time of the escape, after previous inquiry ( ἀνακρίνας , Act_4:9; Luk_23:14), to be led to execution ( ἀπαχθῆναι , the formal word for this, see Wakefield, Silv. crit. II. p. 131; Kypke, II. p. 61; and from Philo: Loesner, p. 204). After the completion of the punishment, he went down from Judaea to his residency, where he took up his abode.
εἰς τὴν Καισάρ .] depends, as well as ἀπὸ τ . ʼΙουδ ., on κατελθών . The definition of the place of the διέτριβεν (Vulg.: ibi commoratus est) was obvious of itself.