Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 16:23

23 Dǎ le xǔduō gùn , biǎn jiāng tāmen xià zaì jiānlǐ , zhǔfu jìn zú yán jǐn kānshǒu .

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 16:23 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 16:23

And when they had laid many stripes upon them
Even above measure, as in ( 2 Corinthians 11:35 ) . They cast them into prison;
designing doubtless to inflict some greater punishment upon them, after they had further examined into their affairs: charging the jailer to keep them safely;
suggesting, that he must be answerable for them, should they escape, either through his favour or his negligence; and they might rather give this strict charge, because they perceived that they were uncommon men, possessed of a strange power, which they had exerted in the casting out of the evil spirit, which might come to their knowledge by some means or other; they might look upon them to be a sort of magicians, and therefore were to be narrowly watched, that they did not make use of their art to deliver themselves; however, they judged it necessary to use all the precautions they could, to secure them: some have thought this jailer to be the same with Stephanas, ( 1 Corinthians 1:16 ) but this is not certain, nor very probable.

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 16:23 In-Context

21 Chuán wǒmen Luómǎ rén suǒ bùkĕ shòu , bùkĕ xíng de guīju .

22 Zhòngrén jiù yītóng qǐlai gōngjī tāmen . guān zhǎng fēnfu bō le tāmende yīshang , yòng gùn dǎ .

23 Dǎ le xǔduō gùn , biǎn jiāng tāmen xià zaì jiānlǐ , zhǔfu jìn zú yán jǐn kānshǒu .

24 Jìn zú lǐng le zhèyàng de méng , jiù bǎ tāmen xià zaì jiānlǐ , liǎng jiǎo shàng le mù gǒu .

25 Yuē zaì bàn yè , Bǎoluó hé Xīlā , dǎogào chàng shī zànmĕi shén , zhòng qiúfàn yĕ cè ĕr ér tīng .