35And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
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And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 35-40)In these verses we have, I. Orders sent for the discharge of Paul and Silas out of prison Acts 16:35 , 36 . 1. The magistrates that had so basely abused them the day before gave the orders; and their doing it so early, as soon as it was day , intimates that either they were sensible the terrific earthquake they felt at midnight was intended to plead the cause of their prisoners, or their conscienc…
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