Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes less one.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
Forty stripes save one. The Lord had ordered, in Deut. xxv3 , that the number of stripes should not exceed forty. The Jews, to make sure of obedience to this precept, used to inflict on criminals one less.
