Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 16:22
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Acts16:22
22 And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
Generality, and Unanimity alone, cannot Authorize Opinions or Practises.
Pauls and Silas's Clothes▪ to disgrace them the more, or in order unto their being scourged, tho some think that the Magistrates rent their own Clothes in detestation of the pretended Blasphemy which was laid to Pauls charge; as the High Priest did, Mark 14.63.
Marginal references: 2 Cor. 11.25. 1 Thess. 2.2.
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