For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Because that for the hope of Israel. That is, of the Messias, so long expected and hoped for by the Israelites. (Witham)
According to the Roman custom, St. Paul must have been fastened by the right hand to one end of a chain, the other end of which chain held to the left hand of the soldier who guarded him. (Bible de Vence)
