When they had taken security (λαβοντες το ικανον). A Greek idiom=Latin satis ac-

cipere, to receive the suffi…

And when they had taken security of Jason. This is an expression taken from courts, meaning that Jason and the other satisfied the magistr…

And when they had taken security of Jason.—The Greek noun, probably used as an equivalent for the Latin satis acciper…

The charges against Paul and Silas and their companions naturally alarmed the Thessalonian politarchs. But apparently they found the evidence for t…

And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other ,
&c.] That is, received satisfaction from them, by the …

The aim and scope of Paul's preaching and arguing was to prove that Jesus is the Christ. He necessarily had to suffer for us, because he could not …