Verse 25
25. The above stripes being specially from Jews, these rods were doubtless in Gentile hands. The Roman rods often inflicted death. As a Roman citizen, Paul was by law exempt from this punishment, but he was doubtless often out of reach of law. So at Philippi he suffered it, following it with protest, and at Jerusalem narrowly escaped it. Acts 16:37; Acts 22:25.
Once… stoned At Lystra. Acts 14:19.
Thrice… shipwreck In addition to the one in Acts 28:0, which was much later than this writing.
A night and a day Twenty-four hours. Not, as some interpret, that Paul was sunk in the deep that time and saved from drowning by miracle. The natural image is, that he was floating that time in the deep, on a fragment of a wrecked ship.
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