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For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
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A Political Ploy
Commentators explain that Paul's accusers strategically framed their religious grievances as political crimes. By calling him a "mover of insurrections," they hoped to provoke the Roman governor Felix, who was known for harshly punishing sedition. This tactic, similar to the one used against Jesus, aimed to manipulate Roman law to achieve a religious objective: silencing the gospel.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
We have found this man a pestilent fellow. loimon. This word is commonly applied to a plague, or pestilence; and then to a man wh…
For we have found (ευροντες γαρ). Second aorist active participle of ευρισκω, but without a principal verb in the sentence. Probab…
19th Century
Anglican
We have found this man a pestilent fellow.—The Greek gives the more emphatic substantive, a pestilence, a plague…
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The three charges laid against Paul (v.5) are probably only a precis of the entire case. Tertullus obviously intended to create the impression of p…
16th Century
Protestant
For we found this man. Tertullus aims at a twofold objective. The first is this: that Paul might be delivered to the Jews, because they ar…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow Pointing to Paul, the prisoner at the bar; the word here used signifie…
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