Acts 23:18. Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and prayed me, etc. The ‘prisoner;' the Greek word signifies ‘one bound.' We may conclude, that Paul was fastened by a chain to the arm of a soldier. As a Roman citizen he was in custodia militaris. ‘ We may well believe that at this time he little thought how long that name (of the prisoner) would be used of him, first by others and then by himself, until it became as a title of honour in which he seemed to glory almost more than in that of apostle. Comp. Ephesians 3:1; Ephesians 4:1; Philem. Acts 23:1; Acts 23:9 ' (Plumptre).

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