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Selected Verse: Acts 22:24 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ac 22:24 |
Strong Concordance |
The chief captain [5506] commanded [2753] him [846] to be brought [71] into [1519] the castle [3925], and bade [2036] that he [846] should be examined [426] by scourging [3148]; that [2443] he might know [1921] wherefore [1223] [3739] [156] they cried [2019] so [3779] against [2019] him [846]. |
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King James |
The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
examined by scourging--according to the Roman practice.
that he might know wherefore they cried so--Paul's speech being to him in an unknown tongue, he concluded from the horror which it kindled in the vast audience that he must have been guilty of some crime. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The castle - The castle of Antonia. He would be there removed entirely from the wrath of the Jews.
Should be examined - ἀνετάζεσθαι anetazesthai." The word "examine" with us commonly means "to inquire, to question, to search for, to look carefully into a subject." The word used here is commonly applied to metals whose nature is tested, or examined by fire; and then it mean to subject to torture or torments, in order to extort a confession where persons were accused of crime. It was often resorted to among the ancients. A common mode has been by the rack, but various kinds of torments have been invented in order to extort confessions of guilt from those who were accused. The whole practice has been one of the most flagrant violations of justice, and one of the foulest blots on human nature. In this case, the tribune saw that Paul was accused violently by the Jews; he was probably ignorant of the Hebrew language, and had not understood the address of Paul; he supposed from the extraordinary excitement that Paul must have been guilty of some flagrant offence, and he therefore resolved to subject him to torture to extort from him a confession.
By scourging - By the scourge or whip. Compare Heb 11:36. This was one mode of torture, in order to extort a secret from those who were accused. |
Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Examined (ἀνετάζεσθαι)
Only here and Act 22:29. Not found in classical Greek. Apocrypha, Susanna, ver. 14.
By scourging (μάστιξιν)
Lit., with scourges. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Examined by scourging - As the chief captain did not understand the Hebrew language, he was ignorant of the charge brought against Paul, and ignorant also of the defense which the apostle had made; and, as he saw that they grew more and more outrageous, he supposed that Paul must have given them the highest provocation; and therefore he determined to put him to the torture, in order to find out the nature of his crime. The practice of putting people to the rack, in order to make them confess, has, to the disgrace of human nature, existed in all countries. |
36 And [1161] others [2087] had [2983] trial [3984] of cruel mockings [1701] and [2532] scourgings [3148], yea [1161], moreover [2089] of bonds [1199] and [2532] imprisonment [5438]:
29 Then [3767] straightway [2112] they departed [868] from [575] him [846] which [3588] should [3195] have examined [426] him [846]: and [1161] the chief captain [5506] also [2532] was afraid [5399], after he knew [1921] that [3754] he was [2076] a Roman [4514], and [2532] because [3754] he had [2258] bound [1210] him [846].