Κύριε, Acts 9:5. αὐτοὶ ἐπίσ.: Paul seems as it were to plead with his Lord that men cannot but receive testimony from one who had previously been an enemy of Jesus of Nazareth; the words too are directed to his hearers, so that they may impress them with the strength of the testimony thus given by one who had imprisoned the Christians. δέρων : on the power of the Sanhedrim outside Jerusalem see on p. 151. κατὰ τὰς συν., cf. Acts 8:3; Acts 20:20, and for such punishments in the synagogues cf. Matthew 10:17; Matthew 23:34; Mark 13:9; Luke 21:12, cf. Luke 12:11, Edersheim, History of the Jewish Nation, p. 374.

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