2Cor 11:24 | JFB | STEP | 24. ordained that not more than forty stripes should be inflicted To avoid exceeding this number, they gave one short of it: thirteen strokes with a treble lash [BENGEL ]. This is one of those minute agreements with Jewish usage, which a forger would have not been likely to observe.

2 Corinthians 11:24

24. De 25:3 ordained that not more than forty stripes should be inflicted To avoid exceeding this number, they gave one short of it: thirteen strokes with a treble lash [BENGEL]. This is one of those minute agreements with Jewish usage, which a forger would have not been likely to observe.