Acts 28:20

MKJV⁽ⁱ⁾ ²⁰ For this cause, then, I called for you, to see and to speak with you. For I have this chain around me for the hope of Israel.

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this cause.
Acts 28:17; Acts 10:29; Acts 10:33
for the.
Acts 23:6; Acts 24:15; Acts 26:6; Acts 26:7
this chain.That is, the chain with which he was bound to the "soldier that kept him;" (ver. 16;) a mode of custody which Dr. Lardner has shown was in use among the Romans. It is in exact conformity, therefore, with the truth of St. Paul's situation at this time, that he declares himself to be "an ambassador in a chain," [en halusis,] (Eph 6:20;) and the exactness is the more remarkable, as [halusis,] a chain is no where used in the singular number to express any other kind of custody.
Acts 26:29; Ephesians 3:1; Ephesians 4:1; Ephesians 6:20; Philippians 1:13; Colossians 4:18; 2 Timothy 1:10; 2 Timothy 2:9
Philemon 1:10; Philemon 1:13