And they drew Alexander out of the multitude,.... Or "some of the multitude brought forth Alexander"; into the theatre, in order to kill him, by casting him to the wild beasts. Some think this is the same with Alexander the coppersmith, who apostatized upon this danger he was exposed to, and became a blasphemer, and a great enemy of the apostle, and did him much evil, 1Ti 1:20.
This man, though his name was a Greek name, yet was a Jew, as is expressed in Ac 19:34 and from the times of Alexander the great, who was at Jerusalem, this name became common among the Jews;See Gill on "Ac 4:6".