The Pulpit Commentary on Acts 23:14

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The elders for elders, A.V.; to taste for that we will eat, A.V.; killed for slain, A.V. The chief priests, etc. Meaning, no doubt, those who were of the party of the Sadducees, to which the chief priests mainly belonged at this time.

A great curse. There is nothing in the phraseology of this verse, as compared with that of Acts 23:12, to warrant the introduction of the word "great." It is simply, "We have anathematized ourselves with an anathema."

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