Acts 12:6

τῇ νυκτὶ ἐκείνῃ : “that very night,” i.e., the night before the trial. κοιμώμενος, cf. 1 Peter 5:7 and Psalms 127:2 : “for so He giveth His beloved sleep”: “and there too it is beautiful that Paul sings hymns, whilst here Peter sleeps,” Chrys., Hom., xxvi.: cf. Acts 16:25. to τὸ πᾶν ῥίψας ἐπὶ τὸν Κύριον, Oecumenius (cf. Blass, in loco). ἁλύσεσι δυσί, cf. Acts 21:33; on the usual Roman custom see Jos., Ant., xviii., 6, 7, in the account of Herod's own imprisonment by Tiberius; cf. Pliny, Epist., x., 65; Seneca, Epist., i., 5, “eadem catena et custodiam (vinctum) et militem copulabat,” perhaps most natural to suppose that Peter was bound on either hand to each of the soldiers, the two chains being used perhaps for greater security on account of the former escape. φύλακες, i.e., the other two of the quaternion to make escape impossible.