Again he sent other servants
 Meaning, perhaps, such as suffered in the times of the Maccabees: 
 more than the first;
 their number was greater, though their office was the same, at least not higher: 
 and they did unto them likewise;
 they beat them with rods, they killed them with the sword, and stoned them, ( Hebrews 11:36 Hebrews 11:37 ) .