Judg 15:13, 16:8, 12, 21, Act 12:6, 20:23, 21:11, 22:25, 29, 28:20, Eph 6:20 | TSK

Is it.By the Roman law, no magistrate was allowed to punish a Roman citizen capitally, or by inflicting stripes, or even binding him; and the single expression, I am a Roman citizen, arrested their severest decrees, and obtained, if not an escape, at least a delay of his punishment.

27,28; 16:37; 25:16

Acts 22:29

examined him. or, tortured him.

24; Heb 11:35

the chief.

25,26; 16:38,39

Acts 28:20

this cause.

17; 10:29,33

for the.

23:6; 24:15; 26:6,7

this chain.That is, the chain with which he was bound to the "soldier that kept him;" (ver. 16;) a mode of custody which Dr. Lardner has shown was in use among the Romans. It is in exact conformity, therefore, with the truth of St. Paul's situation at this time, that he declares himself to be "an ambassador in a chain," [en halusis ,] (Eph 6:20;) and the exactness is the more remarkable, as [halusis ,] a chain is no where used in the singular number to express any other kind of custody.

26:29; Eph 3:1; 4:1; 6:20; Php 1:13; Col 4:18; 2Ti 1:10; 2:9

Phm 1:10,13

Ephesians 6:20

I am.

Pr 13:17; Isa 33:7; 2Co 5:20

bonds. or, a chain.

3:1; 4:1; 2Sa 10:2-6; Ac 26:29; 28:20; Php 1:7,13,14; 2Ti 1:16; 2:9

Phm 1:10

therein. or, thereof. boldly.

19; Isa 58:1; Jer 1:7,8,17; Eze 2:4-7; Mt 10:27,28; Ac 5:29; 28:31

Col 4:4; Php 1:20; 1Th 2:2; 1Jo 3:16; Jude 1:3