Acts 28:20

Webster_Strongs⁽ⁱ⁾

20 G1223 For G5026 this G156 cause G3767 therefore G3870 [G5656] have I called G5209 for you G1492 [G5629] , to see G2532 you, and G4354 [G5658] to speak with G1752 you: because that G1063 for G1680 the hope G2474 of Israel G4029 [G5736] I am bound with G5026 this G254 chain.

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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