1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| II Corinthians 11:24 | Of the Jews *five times did I receive forty stripes, save one. Deuteronomy 25:3. | The Jews had power under the Romans to inflict punishments, not indeed capital, but corporal, such as flogging, etc. See Mark 13:9. The law, in Deuteronomy 25:3. permitted, but did not command, forty stripes to be inflicted; it strictly forbad that number to be exceeded. |