Acts 16:39

See addition in, critical note. The fear of a further riot expressed by the magistrates is exactly what we should expect in the cities of the Ægean lands, which were always weak in their municipal government. [300] also expresses the naïve way in which the magistrates not only try to throw the blame upon the people, but wanted to get out of a difficulty by procuring the withdrawal from the city of the injured parties, Ramsay, u. s., p. 224. The Greek pointedly and dramatically expresses the change in the whole situation: ἐλθόντες παρεκάλεσαν ἐξαγαγόντες ἠρώτων! (Wendt).

[300] Codex Claromontanus (sæc. vi.), a Græco-Latin MS. at Paris, edited by Tischendorf in 1852.