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Acts 24:5
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes;
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes;
Verse Acts 24:5. _FOR WE HAVE FOUND THIS MAN_, c.] Here the _proposition_ of the orator commences. He accuses Paul, ant his accusation includes _four_ particulars:- 1. He is a _pest_, λοιμος an excee...
WE HAVE FOUND THIS MAN A PESTILENT FELLOW - λοιμὸν loimon This word is commonly applied to a plague or pestilence, and then to a man who corrupts the morals of others, or who is turbulent, and an exc...
CHAPTER 23 _ 1. Paul before the Sanhedrin (Acts 23:1)._ 2. The vision of the Lord (Acts 23:11). 3. The Conspiracy against Paul (Acts 23:12). 4. Paul taken to Caesarea ...
HEARING BEFORE FELIX: SPEECH FOR THE PROSECUTION. It would take five days (1) for the summons of Lysias (Acts 23:30) to be acted on, and the prosecutors to travel down. The High Priest and some elders...
Five days afterwards Ananias the high priest came down with some of the elders and with a pleader called Tertullus. They laid information against Paul before the governor. When Paul was called, Tertul...
A FLATTERING SPEECH AND A FALSE CHARGE (Acts 24:1-9)...
PESTILENT. Greek. _loimos,_. plague. Occurs elsewhere. Matthew 24:7; Luke 21:11. A MOVER OF. stirring up. SEDITION. Greek. _stasis_. See note on Acts 15:2. The texts read "seditions". AMONG. Dati
_For we have found this man a pestilent fellow_ The Greek literally says "a pestilence." The same word in the plural is translated "pestilent fellows" in 1Ma 10:61, and it is further explained there b...
ΣΤΆΣΕΙΣ with אABE. _Vulg_. ‘seditiones.’ 5. ΕὙΡΌΝΤΕΣ ΓᾺΡ … ΛΟΙΜΌΝ, _for having found this man a pestilent fellow_. The Greek is literally ‘a pestilence.’ But the word is used of persons, 1Ma 10:61, κα...
Acts 24:1-9. ARRIVAL OF THE ACCUSERS. SPEECH OF TERTULLUS, THEIR ADVOCATE...
_PAUL WAS ACCUSED IN THE COURT OF FELIX ACTS 24:1-9:_ The High Priest and the Jews knew that they had done wrong in their dealing with Paul so they wanted to get the matter settled quickly. Their inte...
ΕΎΡΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΕΎΡΊΣΚΩ (G2147) находить, conymcme. или причинное _part._ ΛΟΙΜΌΣ (G3061) чума, язва, эпидемия; _adj._ заразный, больной; относится к хищным птицам или людям, которые пред...
b. Paul's trial before Felix the governor. Acts 24:1-22. Acts 24:1 And after five days the high priest Ananias came down with certain elders, and with an orator, one Tertullus; and they informed th...
See notes on verse 2...
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes: For we have found this man a pestilent f...
28 As in the case of our Lord, witness after witness testified that Paul had done nothing deserving the bonds he endured or the death with which he was threatened. All who heard his case concurred in...
24:5 (a-1) The speech is elliptical. finding him so, they would have judged him. world, (b-16) Lit. 'habitable world,' as Revelation 12:9 ....
ABLE] rather, 'influential.'...
ST. PAUL BEFORE FELIX 1-27. St Paul and Felix. 1. Tertullus] in spite of his Roman name may have been a Greek or even a Jew (cp.'our Law,' AV Acts 24:6)....
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 24 THE *JEWISH LEADERS ACCUSE PAUL, 24:1-9 V1 Five days later, Ananias the *high priest went to Caesarea. Some leaders and Tertullus, a lawyer,...
WE HAVE FOUND THIS MAN A PESTILENT FELLOW. — The Greek gives the more emphatic substantive, _a pestilence, a plague._ The advocate passes from flattering the judge to invective against the defendant,...
εὑρόντες γὰρ τὸν ἄνδρα … ὂς καὶ … ὅν καὶ ἐκρατ.: on the anacolouthon, Blass, _Gram. des N.G._, p. 277, Winer-Moulton, xlv., 6 _b_. Blass remarks that Luke gives no address so carelessly as that of Ter...
TRUTH AGAINST SLANDER Acts 24:1 Paul was always on the lookout for the one ray of light in murky skies. He found a reason for counting himself happy in this dark hour, Acts 24:10. He held himself wit...
Tertullus, who appeared here, was a Roman barrister, it being necessary for the Jews to employ such in presenting their cases before a Roman tribunal. The charges he made were palpably false. His desc...
The Jews Present the Case Against Paul After five days, the high priest, elders and an orator, or, as Ash says was the case, an attorney, presented themselves before the governor to bring a formal cha...
For we have found this man [a] (c) pestilent [fellow], and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a (d) ringleader of the sect of the (e) Nazarenes: (c) Literally, "a plague...
_A pestilent, [2] or pernicious, and pestiferous man; Greek, one that is a plague. --- Author, or ringleader of the seditious sect, &c. (Witham)_ [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Hominem pestiferum, _Greek: loimon, p...
And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul. (2) And when he was called forth, Tertullus be...
The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
− 5._For we found this man. _Tertullus doth aim at a double mark. The first is this, that Paul may be delivered to the Jews, because they be very skillful in matters which concern the worship of God a...
Paul appears before the governors in succession the Sanhedrim, Felix, Festus, Agrippa, and afterwards Caesar. And here, when occasion offers, we have striking appeals to conscience; when his defence i...
FOR WE HAVE FOUND THIS MAN A PESTILENT FELLOW,.... Pointing to Paul, the prisoner at the bar; the word here used signifies the "pest" or "plague" itself; and it was usual with orators among the Romans...
For we have found this man _a_ pestilent _fellow_, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes: Ver. 5. _A pestilent fellow_] Gr. λο...
_Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious_ Ινα δε μη επι πλειον σε εγκοπτω, _that I may not trouble thee any further_, by trespassing either on thy patience or modesty. The eloquence of Tertullu...
PESTILENT FELLOW; literally, a pest. Eloquence may be employed in propagating falsehood and promoting wickedness. It then becomes a world of iniquity, setting on fire the course of nature, being set o...
The Jews did not delay long just taking enough time (5 days) to make plans by which to influence Felix against Paul. The high priest and elders of the people came down, bringing with them an orator na...
NEVERTHELESS, NOT TO BE TEDIOUS TO YOU ANY FURTHER, I BEG YOU TO HEAR, BY YOUR COURTESY, A FEW WORDS FROM US. 5 For we have found this man a plague, a creator of dissension among all the Jews through...
"For we have found this man. real pest and. fellow who stirs up dissension among all the Jews throughout the world" "The Greek gives the more emphatic noun. a pestilence,. plague, an epidemic... Every...
1-9 See here the unhappiness of great men, and a great unhappiness it is, to have their services praised beyond measure, and never to be faithfully told of their faults; hereby they are hardened and...
A PESTILENT FELLOW; a pest, or plague, the abstract being put for the concrete, as implying, that no word he could use could properly signify the mischievousness of that man, whom he falsely charges w...
Acts 24:5 For G1063 found G2147 (G5631) this G5126 man G435 plague G3061 G2532 creator G2795 ...
“For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes, who moreover attempted to profane t...
Acts 24:5. FOR WE HAVE FOUND THIS MAN A PESTILENT FELLOW. The Greek word rendered ‘a pestilent fellow,' literally signifies ‘a plague or pestilence.' But it is used by Demosthenes, as here, to designa...
FOR WE HAVE FOUND (ευροντες γαρ). Second aorist active participle of ευρισκω, but without a principal verb in the sentence. Probably we have here only a "summary of the charges against Paul" (Page)...
WORLD (Greek, "oikoumenē", means "inhabited earth"). (_ See Scofield) - (Luke 2:1). _...
CONTENTS: Paul accused before Felix, and his defense. CHARACTERS: Ananias, elders, Tertullus, Felix, Paul, Lysias, Drusilla, Festus. CONCLUSION: Every false cause can find men of sharp wits to plead...
Acts 24:1. _After five days, Ananias descended with the elders;_ to intimidate the governor, and ensure the destruction of Paul, as they had done with Pilate in regard of the Saviour. They lost no tim...
FIVE DAYS LATER. Five days after Paul had escaped from Jerusalem. Roman justice moved swiftly. The deep hatred of the Jewish leaders is shown by the fact that the High Priest himself comes, with some...
_We have found this man … a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes._ THE NAZARENE AND THE SECT OF THE NAZARENES (text, and Matthew 2:23):-- 1. Our Saviour, though born at Bethlehem, was commonly kn...
_And after five days Ananias the high priest descended … with a certain orator named Tertullus._ PAUL BEFORE FELIX--A PICTURE OF BARRISTERIAL DEPRAVITY 1. From his Roman name we judge that Tertullus...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 24:1 The Witness in Caesarea. Paul was imprisoned in Caesarea for more than two years. He received formal hearings from the governors Felix and Festus and the Jewish king Agrippa II....
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 24:5 Tertullus accused Paul of three crimes: stirring up RIOTS, being a Christian RINGLEADER, and profaning “the temple” (v. Acts 24:6
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 24:1. AFTER FIVE DAYS.—Reckoned from Paul’s departure from Jerusalem (Kuinoel, Meyer, De Wette, Hackett, Alford, Plumptre), though some (Holtzmann, Lechler, Zöckler, Olshausen,...
EXPOSITION ACTS 24:1 _The high priest Ananias came down _for _Ananias the high priest descended, _A.V.; _certain elders _for _the elders, _A.V. and T.R.; _an orator, one Tertullus _for _a certain ora...
Shall we turn now to chapter twenty-four in the book of Acts. Paul had been seen in the temple worshipping God by some of the Jews that were from Asia who were familiar with Paul's ministry among the...
1 Corinthians 11:19; 1 Corinthians 4:13; 1 Kings 18:17; 1 Kings 18:18;...
Pestilent fellow [λ ο ι μ ο ν]. Lit., a plague or pest. Ringleader [π ρ ω τ ο σ τ α τ η ν]. Originally, one who stands first on the right of a line; a file - leader. Thus Thucydides says that all arm...
Tertullus having prepared the judge, presently falls upon the matter, and charges St. Paul with being. pestilent fellow,. seditious person,. disturber of the nation,. profaner of the temple,. ring-lea...