Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 16:30

30 And brought them out, and said , Sirs , what must I do to be saved?

Into his own apartment in the prison, or to some more open and free place.

A term of respect given by the Romans and Grecians to such whom they honour'd, as now the Jaylor did these seemingly most contemptible men.

He might have some knowledg of a future state, which he here enquires after, 1. By the very light of Nature. 2. Tradition. 3. The Doctrine of the Philosophers. 4. By his frequenting with Iews and Proselytes. Men under fears, and in dangers, as to the things of this world, are brought to look after another world (as every one prays in a storm): but this is onely when God is pleased to sanctify such fears and disasters; otherwise all the plagues of Egypt do but harden them the more, Exod. 7.3.

Marginal references: Luke 3.10. Chap. 2.37. and 9.6.