Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Acts 23:2
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Acts23:2
2. the high priest ... commanded ... to smite him on the mouth--a method of silencing a speaker common in the East to this day [Hacket]. But for a judge thus to treat a prisoner on his "trial," for merely prefacing his defense by a protestation of his integrity, was infamous.
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