Acts 22:25

"And when they stretched him out with thongs" "The person to be scourged was stripped to the waist, and then tied with leather thongs, either in. stooping position over. short post or suspended by the hands above the ground" (Reese p. 810). Paul had been already beaten with rods several times by both the Romans and the Jews (2 Corinthians 11:24 ff), but neither of these had "the murderous quality of the scourging" (p. 810). "It is lawful for you to scourge. man who is. Roman and uncondemned?" Being. Roman citizen protected one from torture without trial. Compare with Acts 16:37.