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Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Matthew 18:34
His lord . . . delivered him to the tormenters. This language is
to be interpreted by customs that still prevail in the East, where
torture is still used to compel debtors to confess where they have
hidden treasures that they are suspected of having concealed. In both
Greece and Rome torture was used on prisoners to compel confession, and
until within a century or two it was still employed in Great Britain
and Europe.
Till he should pay all. As, however, he never could pay, he was
condemned to perpetual imprisonment.
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Matthew 18:34
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