The Tulip Driven Life

  Matthew Henry on the Apostle Paul pleading his Roman Citizenship Privilege in Acts 22: "Paul pleaded his privilege as a Roman citizen, by which he was exempted from all trials and punishments of this nature (v. 25): As they bound him with thongs, or leathern bands, to the whipping post, as they used to bind the vilest of malefactors in bridewell from whom they would extort a confession, he made no outcry against the injustice of their proceedings against an innocent man, but very mildly let them understand the illegality of their proceedings against him as a citizen of Rome, which he had done once before at Philippi after he had been scourged (ch. 16:37), but here he makes use of it for prevention. He said to the centurion that stood by, "You know the law; pray is it lawful for you who are yourselves Romans to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?" The manner of his speaking plainly intimates what a holy security and serenity of mind this good man enjoyed, no...

 This is only part of Calvin's commentary. To see more, go here: https://biblehub.com/commentaries/calvin/romans/11.htm  Romans 11:16-21 16. For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. 16. Quod si primitiae sanctae, etiam conspersio; et si radix sancta etiam rami: 17. And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; 17. Si vero ex ramis quidam defracti sunt, tu vero oleaster quum esses, insitus es pro ipsis, et particeps factus es radicis et pinguedinis oleae; 18. Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. 18. Ne contra ramos glorieris: quod si gloriaris, non tu radicem portas; sed radix to. 19. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. 19. Dices ergo, Defracti sunt rami, ut ego insererer. 20. Well; because...