Acts 28:20 (KJV)

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For this cause therefore have I called for you to see you and to speak with you because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain

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this cause. Ac 28:17 Ac 10:29 Ac 10:33

for the. Ac 23:6 Ac 24:15 Ac 26:6 Ac 26:7

this chain.That is, the chain with which he was bound to the "soldier that kept him;" (ver. 16;) a mode of custody which Dr. Lardner has shown was in use among the Romans. It is in exact conformity, therefore, with the truth of St. Paul's situation at this time, that he declares himself to be "an ambassador in a chain," [en halusis ,] (Eph 6:20;) and the exactness is the more remarkable, as [halusis ,] a chain is no where used in the singular number to express any other kind of custody. Ac 26:29 Eph 3:1 Eph 4:1 Eph 6:20 Php 1:13 Col 4:18 2Ti 1:10 2Ti 2:9 Phm 1:10 Phm 1:13

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