Lys'ias Clau'dius. A chief captain of the band, that is, tribune of the Roman cohort, who rescued St. Paul from the hands of the infuriated mob at Jerusalem, and sent him, under a guard, to Felix, the governor or proconsul of Caesarea. Acts 21:31 seq.; Acts 23:26; Acts 24:7. (A.D. 55).
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