Select Notes Volume N . 19; A Commentary on the International Lessons (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...sufferings he had endured (2 Cor. 11:25), Pam relates how "thrice he was beaten with rods, and of the Jews five times had received forty stripes save one" (2 Cor. 11:24; Deut. 25:3). It is happy for us that few modern countries know, by the example of a similar punishment, what the severity of a Roman scourging was. Well might St. Paul, when at Corinth, look back to this day of cruelty, and remind the Thessalonians how he and Silas had "suffered before, and were shamefully treated at Philippi" Prisoners in Stocks. (l Thess. 3:1).--Howson. Why did they not escape by means of their Roman citizenship, as they did the next morning? The clamor of the mob gave them no opportunity to be heard. Professor Riddle thinks it was to shield the infant church against whom the rage of the mob would have been turned. 23. Many stripes. The Roman punishment was not limited to "forty stripes save one," like that of the Jews.--Riddle. III. The Apostles in Prison.--Vers. 24-26. 24. Thrust them (sore and bleeding) into the inner prison. The dungeon, a deep, damp, chilly cell far underground, opening only at the top, without fresh air o. light, stifling and pestilential. "On one of the slopes of the Capitoline Hill at Rome stands a small church, which is built over one of the most interesting relics of the old Roman times. The subterranean chapel of the church is a dungeon, reached by long and winding stairs; a deep, dark cell, once walled with oak, but now with stone. It is a damp, stifling, pestilential place, where the light is excluded, and where, it has been truly said, the chains must have rusted on the prisoners' limbs. One sees in this appalling place a type of those inner prisons connected with the old Roman jails, where were thrust the ...