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Acts 22:29

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

They then which were about to examine him straightway departed from him for then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him, A.V.; when for after, A.V. Had bound him ( ἧν αὐτὸν δεδεκώς), as related in Acts 21:33.

ἐκέλευσε δεθῆναι: "Facinus est vinciri civem Remanum," Cicero, in 'Verrem,' 5.66 (quoted by Meyer).

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