{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/vws/act025.htm","path":"bib/cmt/vws/act025.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/vws/act025.htm","text":"Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent, [1886]\nWas come into the province (\u1f11\u03c0\u03b9\u03b2\u1f70\u03c2 \u03c4\u1fc7 \u1f10\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03af\u1fb3)\nLit., having entered upon the province.\nBesought\nThe imperfect denotes their persistence: kept beseeching.\nLaying wait (\u1f10\u03bd\u03ad\u03b4\u03c1\u03b1\u03bd \u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u03bf\u1fe6\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2)\nLit., making or arranging an ambush.\nShould be kept (\u03c4\u03b7\u03c1\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9)\nThis puts it as a peremptory denial of the Jews' request by Festus; whereas it is only his statement of a fact. Render, as Rev., that Paul was kept in charge. Festus' reply is conciliatory, and is put on the ground of convenience.\nJudgment-seat\nSee on Act 7:5.\nHave I offended (\u1f25\u03bc\u03b1\u03c1\u03c4\u03bf\u03bd)\nSee on the kindred noun \u1f01\u03bc\u03b1\u03c1\u03c4\u03af\u03b1, sin, Mat 1:21.\nDo a pleasure\nSee on Act 24:27. Rev., better, to gain favor.\nBefore me ( \u1f10\u03c0' \u1f10\u03bc\u03bf\u1fe6)\nNot with him as judge, but by the Sanhedrim in his presence.\nVery well (\u03ba\u03ac\u03bb\u03bb\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd)\nThe force of the comparative should be preserved: \"thou knowest better than thy question implies.\"\nDeliver (\u03c7\u03b1\u03c1\u03af\u03c3\u03b1\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9)\nWith an underlying sense of giving him up as a favor to the Jews.\nI appeal (\u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03ba\u03b1\u03bb\u03bf\u1fe6\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9)\nThe technical phrase for lodging an appeal. The Greek rendering of the Latin formula appello.\nThe council\nA body of men chosen by the governor himself from the principal Romans of the province. These were called assessors, sometimes friends, sometimes captains. Though a Roman citizen had the right of appeal to the emperor, a certain discretion was allowed the governors of provinces as to admitting the appeal. It might be disallowed if the affair did not admit of delay, or if the appellant were a known robber or pirate. In doubtful cases the governor was bound to consult with his council, and his failure to do so exposed him to censure. Cicero, in his impeachment of Verres, the brutal governor of Sicily, says: \"Will you deny that you dismissed your council, the men of rank with whom your predecessor and yourself had been wont to consult, and decided the case yourself?\" (ii., 33). That Festus exercised this discretion in Paul's case is shown by his conferring with the council.\nAgrippa the king\nHerod Agrippa II., son o the Herod whose death is recorded in Act 12:20-23.\nBernice\nSister of Drusilla, the wife of Felix. She is said to have lived in incestuous relations with her brother. Juvenal, in his sixth satire, alludes to this: \"A most notable diamond, made more precious by having been worn on the finger of Bernice. This a barbarian king once gave to his incestuous love. This Agrippa gave to his sister.\"\nOpportunity (\u03c4\u03cc\u03c0\u03bf\u03bd)\nLit., place. An unclassical use of the word.\nStood up (\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03b8\u03ad\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2)\nSee on Luk 18:11; and Luk 19:8.\nSuperstition (\u03b4\u03b5\u03b9\u03c3\u03b9\u03b4\u03b1\u03b9\u03bc\u03bf\u03bd\u03af\u03b1\u03c2)\nSee on Act 17:22. Better, religion, as Rev. As Agrippa was a Jew by religion, Festus would not have insulted him by applying the word superstition to his faith. Note, however, that he speaks of it as their own religion, not identifying Agrippa with them. It was a non-committal expression, since the word meant either religion or superstition according to circumstances. He left Agrippa \"to take the word in a good sense, but reserved his own view, which was certainly the Roman one\" (Meyer). There is, indeed, a similar tact in Paul's use of the word to the Athenians. He selected \"a word which almost imperceptibly shaded off from praise to blame\" (Trench).\nAffirmed (\u1f14\u03c6\u03b1\u03c3\u03ba\u03b5\u03bd)\nThe imperfect implies something habitual. \"Paul kept asserting.\"\nOf the Emperor (\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03a3\u03b5\u03b2\u03b1\u03c3\u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6)\nLit., the august one; hence a translation of Augustus, which was not a proper name, but a title of the Roman emperors.\nLord (\u03ba\u03c5\u03c1\u03af\u1ff3)\nAn instance of Luke's accuracy. The title \"lord\" was refused by the first two emperors, Augustus and Tiberius. The emperors who followed accepted it. In the time of Domitian it was a recognized title. Antoninus Pius was the first who put it on his coins.\nCrimes (\u03b1\u1f30\u03c4\u03af\u03b1\u03c2)\nRev., more correctly, charges.","title":"Vincent's Word Studies: Acts: Acts Chapter 25","type":"page"}