so that in smiting he woundedhim] The R.V. has adopted the literal rendering which stands on the margin of A. V. smiting and wounding him. Josephus specifies the nature of the wound θραύσαντος αὐτοῦ τὸ κράνιον -breaking his head". This of course is to be inferred from what follows.

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