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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Acts 16:35

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying, Let those men go--The cause of this change can only be conjectured. When the commotion ceased, reflection would soon convince them of the injustice they had done, even supposing the prisoners had been entitled to no special privileges; and if rumor reached them that the prisoners were somehow under supernatural protection, they might be the more awed into a desire to get rid of them.
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