Acts 26:3

μάλιστα : (1) “especially because thou art expert,” R.V. (so Blass, Felten, Weiss), or (2) “because thou art specially expert,” margin, R.V. (so Wendt, Rendall, Bethge, Zöckler). See critical notes, and for construction Winer-Moulton, lxiii., 2, a, and xxxii. 7, Wendt (1899), p. 389. γνώστην ὄντα : an anacoluthon, as if an accusative had been previously used, πρός σε … ἀπολ., cf. Acts 22:1. Zöckler takes it as an accusative absolute, following A. Buttmann (see Winer-Moulton., u.s.), but no clear example (cf. Ephesians 1:18, and Hackett's note, in loco). γνώστην, cf. Susannah, ver 42 (Theod., not LXX), with genitive as here. ἐθῶν τε καὶ ζητ.: “ consuetudinum in practicis, quæstionum in theoreticis,” Bengel, on Acts 26:32 see above, Acts 25:19. μακροθύμως, only here in N.T., but μακροθυμία frequent in St. Paul's Epistles (cf. Sir 5:11).