for having found this man a pestilence, and moving a dissension to all the Jews through the world -- a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes -- Acts 24:5 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleFor we have found this man, etc. - Here the proposition of the orator commences. He accuses Paul, ant his accusation includes four particulars: -
1. He is a pest, λοιμος; an exceedingly bad and wicked man.
2. He excites disturbances and seditions against the Jews.
3. He is the chief of the sect of the Nazarenes, who are a very bad people, and should not be tolerated.
4. He has endeavored to pollute and profane the temple, and we took him in the fact.
A pestilent fellow - The word λοιμος, pestis - the plague or pestilence, is used by both Greek and Roman authors to signify a very bad and profligate man; we have weakened the force of the word by translating the substantive adjectively. Tertullus did not say that Paul was a pestilent fellow, but he said that he was the very pestilence itself. As in that of Martial, xi. 92: -
Non vitiosus homo es, Zoile, sed vitium.
"Thou art not a vicious man, O Zoilus, but thou art vice itself."
The words λοιμος, and pestis, are thus frequently used. - See Wetstein, Bp. Pearce, and Kypke.
A mover of sedition - Instead of Ϛασιν, sedition, ABE, several others, with the Coptic, Vulgate, Chrysostom, Theophylact, and Oecumenius, read Ϛασεις, commotions, which is probably the true reading.
Among all the Jews - Bp. Pearce contends that the words should be understood thus - one that stirreth up tumults Against all the Jews; for, if they be understood otherwise, Tertullus may be considered as accusing his countrymen, as if they, at Paul's instigation, were forward to make insurrections every where. On the contrary, he wishes to represent them as a persecuted and distressed people, by means of Paul and his Nazarenes.
A ringleader - Πρωτοστατην. This is a military phrase, and signifies the officer who stands on the right of the first rank; the captain of the front rank of the sect of the Nazarenes; της των ναζωραιων αἱρεσεως, of the heresy of the Nazarenes. This word is used six times by St. Luke; viz. in this verse, and in Acts 24:14, and in Acts 5:17; Acts 15:5; Acts 26:5; Acts 28:22; but in none of them does it appear necessarily to include that bad sense which we generally assign to the word heresy. - See the note on Acts 5:17, where the subject is largely considered; and see farther on Acts 24:14 (note).
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we have.
Acts 6:13 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceases not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
Acts 16:20,21 And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city...
Acts 17:6,7 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brothers to the rulers of the city, crying...
Acts 21:28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teaches all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place...
Acts 22:22 And they gave him audience to this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth...
Acts 28:22 But we desire to hear of you what you think: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.
1 Kings 18:17,18 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, Are you he that troubles Israel...
Jeremiah 38:4 Therefore the princes said to the king, We beseech you, let this man be put to death...
Amos 7:10 Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying...
Matthew 5:11,12 Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake...
Matthew 10:25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord...
1 Corinthians 4:13 Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things to this day.
and a mover.
1 Samuel 22:7-9 Then Saul said to his servants that stood about him, Hear now, you Benjamites...
Ezra 4:12-19 Be it known to the king, that the Jews which came up from you to us are come to Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city...
Nehemiah 6:5-8 Then sent Sanballat his servant to me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand...
Esther 3:8 And Haman said to king Ahasuerus...
Luke 23:2,5,19,25 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar...
1 Peter 2:12-15,19 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works...
the sect.
Acts 24:14 But this I confess to you, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers...
*Gr:
Acts 5:17 Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,
Acts 15:5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them...
Acts 26:5 Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most strait sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
Acts 28:22 But we desire to hear of you what you think: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.
1 Corinthians 11:19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
*Gr:
Nazarenes.
Matthew 2:23 And he came and dwelled in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets...
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