ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ὥρᾳ τῆς νυκτός, in that same hour of the night. It was midnight, see Acts 16:25. But a new day, a birthday, had already begun for him and it must be kept as a feast. So he does his utmost to shew his rejoicing by care for those who had caused it.

ἔλουσεν�, he washed their stripes. An act of attention which had not been bestowed before. They were thrust into the inner prison with their wounds all bleeding and uncared for. The literal sense is ‘washed (them) from their wounds,’ i.e. from the stains and blood which their wounds had caused. Cf. Revelation 1:5, λούσαντι ἡμᾶς�.

Chrysostom here remarks: ἐκείνους μὲν�, αὐτὸς δὲ�, ἔθρεψε καὶ ἐτράφη.

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