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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Acts 25:26

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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I have no certain--"definite" thing to write my lord--Nero. "The writer's accuracy should be remarked here. It would have been . . . a mistake to apply this term ("lord") to the emperor a few years earlier. Neither Augustus nor Tiberius would let himself be so called, as implying the relation of master and slave. But it had now come (rather, "was coming") into use as one of the imperial titles" [HACKET]. Next: Acts Chapter 26
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