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Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 21:38

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Acts21:38

38 Art not thou that Egyptian which before these days madest an uprore, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?

A famous Ring-leader of a Rebellious Crew, as some think, in the Reign of Tiberius; but as others, in the Thirteenth Year of the Emperor Claudius, and continued till under Nero's Reign, and came from these Four Thousand mentioned here at his first setting up, to have Thirty Thousand Followers, pretending himself to be a Prophet; of whom Iosephus, Antiq. lib. 20. cap. 11.

Or Assassinates, that did wear Daggs or Stellatoes.

Marginal references: Chap. 5.36.

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