ACTS 22:24 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.”
the commander ordered him to be brought into the barracks, saying that he should be examined by scourging so that he might find out the reason why they were shouting against him in this way — the commander, unable to understand the theological furor, resorts to military interrogation via scourging. Roman pragmatism misreads Jewish religious passion.
Church Fathers on Acts 22:24
See how he thrusts himself (into danger), I came, he says, after that vision, to Jerusalem. I was in a trance, etc. Again, this is without witness: but observe, the witness follows from the result. He said, They will not receive your testimony: they did not receive it. And yet from calculations of reason the surmise should have been this, that they would assuredly receive him. For I was the man that made war upon the Christians: so that they ought to have received him. Here…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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