ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ὥρᾳ τῆς νυκτὸς, cf. Acts 16:18, “at that hour of the night”; the jailor will not delay for a moment his first Christian duty, Matthew 25:36. ἔλουσεν ἀπὸ τῶν πληγῶν : “and washed them of their stripes,” Ramsay; i.e., the stains of the wounds caused by the lictors (for similar construction of λούειν ἀπό see Deissmann, Neue Bibelstudien, p. 54). Hobart, p. 112, compares Galen's words, τὸ αἷμα τοῦ τετρωμένου μέρους ἀποπλῦναι. καὶ οἱ αὐτοῦ πάντες : for the bearing of the words on Infant Baptism, see on Acts 16:15. It may of course be said that the expression evidently implies the same persons who are instructed in Acts 16:32, but it cannot be said that the phrase may not include any other members of the household. The two washings are put in striking juxtaposition: the waters of baptism washed the jailor from deeper stains and more grievous wounds than those of the lictors' rods, Chrys., Hom., xxxvi. παραχρῆμα, emphatic, see above on p. 106.

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