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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
But why did the chief priests and the rest not learn immediately that the apostles had left the prison? This was so that, remaining for some time in perplexity, they might more easily be able to comprehend and understand that this was an act of Divine power.
Western Saints
Bede
But when the temple magistrates and the chief priests heard these words, they were perplexed about what was to happen concerning them. And here "magistrate" should be read in singular form, as also in the following passages where it says: Then the magistrate went into the temple with the ministers. For the Greek exemplar has "στρατηγὸς," that is, "praetor," in the singular in both places. …
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