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When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
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Posting Bail for the Gospel
Commentators explain that 'taking security' was a formal legal action, equivalent to posting bail. Jason and the other believers likely had to deposit a sum of money or make a legal promise to the city officials (politarchs). This action satisfied the authorities, who had flimsy evidence against the Christians, and secured the release of Jason and his companions from custody.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And when they had taken security of Jason. This is an expression taken from courts, meaning that Jason and the other satisfied the magistr…
When they had taken security (λαβοντες το ικανον). A Greek idiom=Latin satis ac-
cipere, to receive the suffi…
19th Century
Anglican
And when they had taken security of Jason.—The Greek noun, probably used as an equivalent for the Latin satis acciper…
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The charges against Paul and Silas and their companions naturally alarmed the Thessalonian politarchs. But apparently they found the evidence for t…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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 …
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