Acts 4:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Straitly threaten them; the pleonasm here used implies a very sore and heavy threatening, as of the most grievous punishment upon the most heinous fact. That they speak henceforth to no man in this name; either,

1. By preaching; or:

2. By praying in it; or:

3. By doing miracles again by it.

Acts 4:17

17 But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.