μὴ ὁ νόμος. Ὁ νόμος is emphatic. ‘You condemn the multitude for not knowing the law; but are we not forgetting the law in condemning a man unheard?’ These learned theologians and lawyers were forgetting such plain and simple texts as Deuteronomy 1:16-17; Deuteronomy 17:8; Deuteronomy 19:15, involving the most elementary principles of justice.

τὸν ἄνθρ. The man (prosecuted), except it first hear from himself, or perhaps hear his defence.

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