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Acts 26:10

The Pulpit Commentary on Acts 26:10

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And this for which thing, A.V.; I both shut up for did I shut up, A.V. (with a change of order); prisons for prison, A.V.; vote for voice, A.V. I … shut up. The ἐγώ is emphatic. The verb κατακλείω, peculiar to St.

Luke (see ) is much used by medical writers. Were put to death; ἀναιρουμένων, a word frequent in St. Luke's writings, and much used in medical works, as well as ἀναίρεσις (). The phrase καταφέρειν ψῆφον is unusual; φέρειν ψῆφον is the more common phrase, both in Josephus and in classical writers.

I gave my vote, etc. Not, as Meyer and others take it, "I assented to it, at the moment of their being killed," equivalent to συνευδοκῶν of ; but rather," when the Christians were being punished with death, I was one of those who in the Sanhedrim voted for their death."

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