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Acts 25
God would have the innocence of his beloved servant proved in the face of
the world. His discourse tends to this. He goes farther, but his object is
to give account of his conduct. His miraculous conversion is related in
order to justify his subsequent career; but it is so related as to act upon
the conscience of Agrippa, who was acquainted with Jewish things, and
evidently desired to hear something of Christianity, which he suspected to
be the truth. Accordingly he lays hold with eagerness of the opportunity
that presents itself to hear the apostle explain it. But he remains much
where he was. His condition of soul opens however the mouth of Paul, and he
addresses himself directly and particularly to the king; who moreover,
evidently engrossed by the subject, had called on him to speak. To Festus
it was all a rhapsody.
The dignity of Paul's manner before all these governors is perfect. He
addresses himself to the conscience with a forgetfulness of self that
shewed a man in whom communion with God, and the sense of his relationship
with God, carried the mind above all effect of circumstances. He was acting
for God; and, with a perfect deference for the position of those he
addressed, we see that which was morally altogether superior to them. The
more humiliating his circumstances, the more beauty there is in this
superiority. Before the Gentiles he is a missionary from God. He is again
(blessed be God!) in his right place. All that he said to the Jews was
right and deserved; but why was he, who had been delivered from the people,
subjected to their total want of conscience, and their blind passions which
gave no place for testimony? Nevertheless, as we have seen, it was to be so
in order that the Jews might in every way fill up the measure of their
iniquity, and indeed that the blessed apostle might follow the steps of his
Master.
Chapter 25:
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