| John Bird Sumner - Bible - 1847 - 602 pages
...smitest thou me ?" 8 And St. Paul thought it not inconsistent with his Christian patience to ask, " Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned ?" 9 If by proper means we can prevent another from doing wrong and committing injury,... | |
| United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel - Chaplains, Military - 1948 - 298 pages
...other consideration, I never witness it without being tempted to ask Paul's question to the centurion, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman?" But though there was sorrow in the case, and I felt every stroke almost as if across my own shoulders,... | |
| Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - Catholic schools - 1912 - 512 pages
...against him. And when they had bound him with thongs, Paul saith to the centurion that stood by him : Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned? Which the centurion hearing went to the tribune and told him saying: What art thou about... | |
| 1907 - 550 pages
...resented so unjust an act on the part of the chief captain, so while being bound he said to the Centurion, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?" Then again, it was in the exercise of the rights which he decidedly possessed as a Roman... | |
| Roland Mushat Frye - Bibles - 1978 - 644 pages
...examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him. 25 And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that...lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman and uncondemned? 26 When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed... | |
| Witness Lee - 1991 - 96 pages
...law. Paul himself claimed this right. When he was about to be scourged, he protested to the centurion, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?" (Acts 22:25). The chief captain was afraid "after he knew that he was a Roman, and because... | |
| Herman Melville - Fiction - 1983 - 1470 pages
...made, let us demand of Legislators, by what right they dare profane what God himself accounts sacred. Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman? asks the intrepid Apostle, well knowing, as a Roman citizen, that it was not. And now, eighteen hundred... | |
| Herman Melville - Fiction - 1976 - 448 pages
...fellow-conspirators followed. 272. Thou shall not lay stripes upon these Roman citizens Cf. 'And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that...lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?' (Acts xxii, 25} 274. their Donnybrook shillelahs Shillelagh (a village in County Wicklow):... | |
| John R. Rice - Religion - 2000 - 568 pages
...charged with or at least to find out any truth that he was hiding. VERSES 25-30: 25 And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that...lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned f 26 When the centurion heard tlmt, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed... | |
| Philip Schaff - Religion - 1980 - 600 pages
...of the thongs, by tying him up to a beam or pillar.' (So Meyer, DeWette, Lechler, Gloag).— G. BS lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned ? " (v. 25.) Paul lied not, God forbid : for he was a Roman : 1 if there was nothing else,... | |
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