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Topic:
Executioner
With respect to the word "executioner…"
(Mark 6:27). Instead of the Greek word, Mark here uses a Latin word,
speculator, which literally means "a scout," "a
spy," and at length came to denote one of the armed bodyguard of
the emperor. Herod Antipas, in imitation of the emperor, had in
attendance on him a company of speculatores. They were sometimes
employed as executioners, but this was a mere accident of their office.
Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries
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