He called for a light, or lights, which prisons are not usually without. Came trembling: what a sudden and great change can God make! he comes trembling to those feet which he had put into the stocks so lately. Fell down before Paul and Silas; by which he would give a civil respect unto them, it being an ordinary rite amongst the Eastern nations (as endless examples in Scripture witness) to pay their respects; and from them it spread itself into Greece: which respect Paul and Silas do not refuse, because it was barely civil, and did show the humility aud brokenness of the jailer's heart. Yet Peter would not accept of the like from Cornelius, Acts 10:25,26, because it was more than a bare civil respect which Cornelius would have given him.
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Acts 16:29
29 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,