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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Acts 25:11

For if. If then indeed.

if. App-118.

be an offender. am doing wrong. Greek. adikeo, as in Acts 25:10.

refuse. Literally beg off. Greek. paraiteomai. See Luke 14:18.

none. nothing. Greek. oudeis. no man. no one. Greek. oudeis.

may. can. See Acts 25:7.

deliver. Literally grant. Greek. charizomai. App-184. See Acts 3:14.

unto. to.

appeal unto. call upon, invoke. Greek. epikaleomai. See Acts 2:21.

Caesar: i.e. the Emperor before whose tribunal every Roman citizen was entitled to appear. Paul, seeing the desire of Festus to hand him over to the Jews, was constrained to exercise this right. Compare Acts 16:37; Acts 22:25.

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