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Lysias

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature

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Lys´sias, or Claudius Lysias, chiliarch and commandant of the Roman troops who kept guard at the temple of Jerusalem, by whom Paul was secured from the fury of the Jews, and sent under guard to the procurator Felix at Cesarea ( to ).

 

 

 

 

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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Lysias'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​kbe/​l/lysias.html.
 
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