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Acts 16:34

Acts 16:34

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

He brought them up … and set for when he had brought them … he set, A.V.; rejoiced greatly for rejoiced, A.V. ( ἀγαλλιάομαι, a stronger word than χαίρειν, ; 1 Peter 1:6); with all his house, having believed in God for believing in God with all his house, A.

V. The word πανοικί. rendered "with all his house," occurs only here in the New Testament. But it is used by the LXX. in and elsewhere, and by Josephus, etc. The more classical form is πανοικεσίᾳ or πανοικησίᾳ.

The A.V. gives the meaning better than the R.V. The faith and the joy were both common to the jailor and his house.

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