who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
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who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
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Which iayler when he had receaved suche commaundment thrust them into the ynner preson and made their fete fast in the stockes.
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Who hauing receiued such commandement, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feete fast in the stockes.
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Passages linked to Acts 16:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Job 13:27 You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
- Job 33:11 He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’
- Jeremiah 29:26 “Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.
- Jeremiah 38:26 then you shall tell them, ‘I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.’ ”
- 1 Kings 22:27 Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ”
- 2 Chronicles 16:10 Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
- Psalms 105:18 They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,
- Jeremiah 20:2-3 Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house. On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.
- Jeremiah 37:15-16 The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison. When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,
- Lamentations 3:53-55 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me. Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.” I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Because he would be more sure of them, he…
Because he would be more sure of them, he set them fast in the stocks.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 24 Who, having received such a charge, thrust them…
24 Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
Ver. 24. Fast in the stocks] The word το ξυλον signifieth such a pair of stocks, as wherein they used to make fast feet and neck too, saith Beza out of Nonius. Various of our martyrs were thus stocked in the bishop of London’s coalhouse; as Mr Philpot, and that martyr that rejoiced that she might have her foot in the hole of the stocks in which Master Philpot had been before her.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Thus they dealt with Joseph, Gen 39:20, compared with…
Thus they dealt with Joseph, Gen 39:20, compared with Psa 105:18, and with Jeremiah, and with John Baptist.
Sanctorum sors est, et non moleste ferenda.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Who having received such a charge,.... So strict an…
Who having received such a charge,.... So strict an one from the magistrates, was doubly careful and diligent:
thrust them into the inner prison: the innermost part of it, the lowest or furthest part of the prison; so that there were the more doors, bolts, and bars, to break open, and pass through, should they attempt to make their escape:
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and made their feet fast in the stocks; or "wood", a wooden machine, in which the feet of prisoners were put for security, and which we call "the stocks"; some say it was such an one, in which the neck as well as the feet were put, and so might be the same with our "pillory".
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Secured their feet in the stocks - These were…
Secured their feet in the stocks - These were probably those large pieces of wood, in use among the Romans, which not only loaded the legs of the prisoner, but also kept them extended in a very painful manner.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 24. The inner prison] Probably what we would…
Verse 24. The inner prison] Probably what we would call the dungeon; the darkest and most secure cell.
Made their feet fast in the stocks.] The το ξυλον, which we here translate stocks, is supposed to mean two large pieces of wood, pierced with holes like our stocks, and fitted to each other, that, when the legs were in, they could not be drawn out. The holes being pierced at different distances, the legs might be separated or divaricated to a great extent, which must produce extreme pain. It is this circumstance to which it is supposed Prudentius refers, in speaking of the torments of St. Vincent:-
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Lignoque plantas inserit,
Divaricatis cruribus.
"They placed his feet in the stocks, his legs greatly distended!"
If the apostles were treated in this way, lying on the bare ground with their flayed backs, what agony must they have suffered! However, they could sing praises notwithstanding.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Thrust them into the inner prison - Into the…
Thrust them into the inner prison - Into the most retired and secure part of the prison. The cells in the interior of the prison would be regarded as more safe, being doubtless more protected, and the difficulty of escape would be greater.
And made their feet fast in the stocks - Greek: and made their feet secure to wood. The word “stocks,” with us, denotes a machine made of two pieces of timber between which the feet of criminals are placed, and in which they are thus made secure. The account here does not imply necessarily that they were secured precisely in this way, but that they were fastened or secured by the feet, probably by cords, to a piece or beam of wood, so that they could not escape. It is probable that the legs of the prisoners were bound to large pieces of wood which not only encumbered them, but which were so placed as to extend their feet to a considerable distance. In this condition it might be necessary for them to lie on their backs; and if this, as is probable, was on the cold ground, after their severe scourging, their sufferings must have been very great. Yet in the midst of this they sang praises to God.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Made their feet fast in the stocks. By the…
Made their feet fast in the stocks. By the Latin and Greek text, they made them fast with wood. (Witham)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain made their feet fast in the stocks--an instrument of…
made their feet fast in the stocks--an instrument of torture as well as confinement, made of wood bound with iron, with holes for the feet, which were stretched more or less apart according to the severity intended. (ORIGEN at a later period, besides having his neck thrust into an iron collar, lay extended for many days with his feet apart in the rack). Though jailers were proverbially unfeeling, the manner in which the order was given in this case would seem to warrant all that was done.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 24. Feet fast in the stocks—The stocks were a…
24. Feet fast in the stocks—The stocks were a wooden frame, often iron-bound, into which the limbs were fastened so as to be immovable. The feet, hands, or neck might be so cramped as to fill the body with weariness and pain.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 24. the inner prison] Necessarily a place dark and…
24. the inner prison] Necessarily a place dark and without ventilation, and hence foul and loathsome; perhaps underground, like the Tullianum at Rome (Varr. L. L. v. § 161; Lev. 29:22).
their feet fast in the stocks] The stocks (lit. wood) was a means of additional security and additional torture. The feet Passed through holes and held secure made rest almost impossible. The instrument was of early use (cp. Job_13:27; Job_33:11), and the Greeks, as well as ourselves, had also the pillory, and had it made with five apertures for head, hands and feet (Aristoph. Eq. 1049).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (24) Thrust them into the inner prison.—Those who have…
(24) Thrust them into the inner prison.—Those who have seen anything of the prisons of the Roman empire, as, e.g., the Mamertine dungeon at Rome itself, can picture to themselves the darkness and foulness of the den into which Paul and his friend were now thrust: the dark cavern-like cell, below the ground, the damp and reeking walls, the companionship of the vilest outcasts. And, as if this were not enough, they were fastened in the “stocks.” St. Luke uses the Greek term xylon, the same as is used sometimes for the cross (Act_5:30; Act_13:29). The technical Latin word was nervus. Like the English stocks, it was a wooden frame with five holes, into which head and feet and arms were thrust, and the prisoner left in an attitude of “little-ease.” Here, however, it would seem, the feet only were fastened, the rest of the body being left lying on the ground. If the Received version of Job_13:27; Job_33:11, which follows the LXX. and the Vulgate, be correct, the punishment was common at a very early period in the East. (Comp. Jer_29:26.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Cast for thrust, A.V. In the stocks; Greek tolon,…
Cast for thrust, A.V. In the stocks; Greek tolon, sometimes called xulopedh. The xulon was of different forms, and used as a punishment. Sometimes it was a kind of heavy wooden collar put on the neck of a prisoner, whence the phrase, Xulw fimoun thna (Aristoph., "Nubes," 592)," To make fast his neck in the pillory." Sometimes it was what Aristophanes calls pentesuriggon xulon, "stocks with five holes," two for the feet, two for the hands, and one for the neck. Here, as inmati, Job_13:27 (where the LXX word is ejn kulu) Hebrew dse, a stake, or log), it is simply" the stocks." Thus Paul and Silas, first stripped and 1,catch, then put in the inner prison, and further made fast in the stocks, were treated with the utmost possible rigour and severity. See St. Paul"s vivid reminiscence of the outrage (ntev). (1Th_2:2, uJbrisqe)
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William B. Godbey 1900 · Public Domain 24-26. To put a final quietus to all the…
24-26. To put a final quietus to all the trouble, they cast Paul and Silas into the deep, dark dungeon of their cruel, filthy old prison, with their lacerated, bleeding backs down on the cold, stone floor, and their feet raised up and wedged fast in great blocks of wood, thus precluding all possibility of escape. If you had been in their place, would you not have concluded that you were mistaken as to the call of God to that place? Paul and Silas, while the hours glide away, tell their experiences, pray to God, get very happy and continue to sing uproariously the praises of God, arresting the attention and astonishing the suffering inmates of those gloomy dungeons, utterly unaccustomed to hear songs of joy. At midnight God answers their prayer with the earthquake shock, disrupting the deep foundations of the prison, snapping all the bars and bolts, and slamming back the ponderous iron doors against the massive stone walls like claps of thunder.
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J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain See notes on verse 22
See notes on verse 22
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