The estate of the elders; their sanhedrim or great council. Letters; commission or orders. The brethren; the Jews of Damascus are called brethren, because they descended from the patriarchs as well as he. And still, as Acts 22:1, he would overcome that stubborn people with civility, heaping up coals of fire on their heads, Romans 12:20, that they might be melted, and then formed after a more excellent manner.
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Acts 22:5
5 As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.