And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?
And as they bound him with thongs, [proeteinan, ( G4385), or - proeteinon ( G4385) auton ( G846) tois ( G3588) himasin (G2438)] - 'were stretching him out (or "putting him on the stretch") with thongs'; that is, fixing him in this way for receiving the keen strokes of the scourgers. [The Received Text-`he bound him' (proeteinen (G4385) - is here properly departed from by our translators, with Beza: it has next to no support.]
Paul said unto the centurion that stood by - to superintend the torture, and receive the confession expected to be wrung from him,
Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned? See the note at Acts 16:37.