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For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”
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Verse 20. Because that for the hope of Israel. That is, of the Messias, so long expected and hoped for by the Israelites. Witham.—According to the Roman custom, Saint Paul must have been fastened by the right hand to one end of a chain, the other end of which chain held to the left hand of the soldier who guarded him. V.
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