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Matthew 18:6

Matthew 18:6

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that a: This mode of punishment appears to have obtained in Syria as well as in Greece, especially in cases of parricide. That it was customary in Greece we learn from Suidas, in υπερβολον λιθον:, and the scholiast on the Equites of Aristophanes: Οταν: strong:G3752, γαρ: strong:G1063, κατεποντων: strong:G2671, τινας: strong:G5099, βαρος: strong:G922, απο: strong:G575, των τραχηλων: strong:G5137, εκρεμων: strong:G2910. "When a person was drowned, they hung a weight about his neck."

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