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Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

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SERJEANTS . EV [Note: English Version.] tr. [Note: translate or translation.] in Acts 16:35; Acts 16:38 of Gr. rhabdouchoi (= ‘rod-bearers’), which represents the Lat. lictores (RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] lictors ), officials whose duty it was to attend the Roman magistrates, to execute their orders, and especially to administer the punishments of scourging or beheading. For this purpose they carried, as their mark of office, the fasces , a bundle of rods with an axe inserted. Cf. art. Philippi.

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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Serjeants'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​hdb/​s/serjeants.html. 1909.
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