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Acts 16:22

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Rent their garments off them for rent off their clothes, A.V.; beat them with rods for beat them, A.V. Beat them; ῥαβδίζειν, marking that they were beaten by the lictors, or ῥαβδοῦχοι (see Acts 16:35).

The phrase rent … off ( περιῤῥήξαντες) is only found here in the New Testament, but it is frequently used of stripping off garments, in classical Greek and in 2 Macc. 4:38; and by Josephus ('Ant. Jud.

,' 6. 14:6) of David rending his garments—a circumstance not mentioned in the Bible narrative (1 Samuel 30:1-31: 4).

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