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Acts 25
Verse 2. Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews appeared against
Paul - In so long a time their rage was not cooled. So much louder
a call had Paul to the Gentiles.
Verse
4. But Festus answered - So Festus's care to preserve the imperial
privileges was the means of preserving Paul's life. By what
invisible springs does God govern the world! With what silence,
and yet with what wisdom and energy!
Verse
5. Let those of you who are able - Who are best able to undertake
the journey, and to manage the cause. If there be any wickedness
in him - So he does not pass sentence before he hears the cause.
Verse
6. Not more than ten days - A short space for a new governor to
stay at such a city as Jerusalem. He could not with any
convenience have heard and decided the cause of Paul within that
time.
Verse
7. Bringing many accusations - When many accusations are
heaped together, frequently not one of them is true.
Verse
8. While he answered - To a general charge a general answer was
sufficient.
Verse
9. Art thou willing to go up to Jerusalem - Festus could have
ordered this without asking Paul. But God secretly overruled the
whole, that he might have an occasion of appealing to Rome.
Verse
10. I am standing at Cesar's judgment seat - For all the courts of
the Roman governors were held in the name of the emperor, and
by commission from him. No man can give me up - He expresses
it modestly: the meaning is, Thou canst not. I appeal to Cesar -
Which any Roman citizen might do before sentence was passed.
Verse
12. The council - It was customary for a considerable number of
persons of distinction to attend the Roman governors. These
constituted a kind of council, with whom they frequently advised.
Verse
13. Agrippa - The son of Herod Agrippa, chap. xii, 1; and Bernice
- His sister, with whom he lived in a scandalous familiarity. This
was the person whom Titus Vespasian so passionately loved, that
he would have made her empress, had not the clamours of the
Roman prevented it.
Verse
15. Desiring judgment against him - As upon a previous
conviction, which they falsely pretended.
Verse
16. It is not the custom of the Roman - How excellent a rule, to
condemn no one unheard! A rule, which as it is common to all
nations, (courts of inquisition only excepted,) so it ought to direct
our proceedings in all affairs, not only in public, but private life.
Verse
18. Such things as I supposed - From their passion and
vehemence.
Verse
19. But had certain questions - How coldly does he mention the
things of the last importance! And about one Jesus - Thus does
Festus speak of Him, to whom every knee shall bow! Whom Paul
affirmed to be alive - And was this a doubtful question? But why,
O Festus, didst thou doubt concerning it? Only because thou didst
not search into the evidence of it. Otherwise that evidence might
have opened to thee, till it had grown up into full conviction; and
thy illustrious prisoner have led thee into the glorious liberty of
the children of God.
Verse
23. With the tribunes and principal men of the city - The chief
officers, both military and civil.
Chapter 25:
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