Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 21:35

35 Dào le táijiē , zhòngrén jǐ dé xiōng mĕng , bīng dīng zhǐ dé jiāng Bǎoluó tái qǐlai .

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 21:35 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 21:35

And when he came upon the stairs
Or steps, which led up to the castle; for it was built upon a very high place, as appears from the account of it in the preceding verse; to which agrees what Aristaeas ^F7 says of it in the following words;

``in order to have knowledge of all things, we went up to a castle adjoining to the city, which is situated in a very high place, fortified with very high towers, built with large stones, as we supposed for the preservation of the places about the temple, if there should be any lying in wait, or tumult, or enemies should enter; so that none might be able to make way in at the walls about the temple; for in the towers of the castle lay very sharp darts and various instruments, and the place was upon a very great eminence.''

So it was that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the
people:
the sense is, either that the crowd of the people was so great, and they so pressed upon Paul and the soldiers that conducted him, that he was even thrown upon them, and bore up by them; or else such was the rage of the people against him, that the soldiers were obliged to take him up in their arms, and carry him, in order to secure him from being tore in pieces by them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Hist. de 70 Interpret. p. 36. Ed. Oxon.

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 21:35 In-Context

33 Yúshì qiā fú zhǎng shàng qián ná zhù tā , fēnfu yòng liǎng tiaó tiĕliàn kúnsuǒ . yòu wèn tā shì shénme rén , zuò de shì shénme shì .

34 Zhòngrén yǒu hǎnjiào zhège de , yǒu hǎnjiào nàge de . qiā fú zhǎng yīnwei zhèyàng luàn nāng , dé bú zhe shí qíng , jiù fēnfu rén bǎ Bǎoluó daì jìn yíng lóu qù .

35 Dào le táijiē , zhòngrén jǐ dé xiōng mĕng , bīng dīng zhǐ dé jiāng Bǎoluó tái qǐlai .

36 Zhòngrén gēn zaì hòumian , hǎn zhe shuō , chúdiào tā .

37 Jiāngyào daì tā jìn yíng lóu , Bǎoluó duì qiā fú zhǎng shuō , wǒ duì nǐ shuō gōu huà , kĕyǐ bùkĕ yǐ . tā shuō , nǐ dǒng dé Xīlà huà má .