Acts 16:29

φῶτα : “lights,” R.V., plural, and only in plural in later Greek, cf. 1Ma 12:29, of fires in a military encampment; “the prisoners' chains were loosed, and worse chains were loosed from himself; he called for a light, but the true heat was lighted in his own heart” Chrys., Hom., xxxvi. εἰσεπήδησε, cf. Acts 14:14, ἐκπ., both verbs only in Luke in N.T. In LXX, cf. Amos 5:19, Sus., Acts 16:26, especially the latter, found also in classical Greek. ἔντρομος γεν., see above. προσέπεσε : he may have known of the words of the maiden, Acts 16:17, and recognised their truth in the earthquake, and in the calmness and demeanour of Paul; hence too his question.