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Acts 24:1

Acts 24:1

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

The high priest Ananias came down for Ananias the high priest descended, A.V.; certain elders for the elders, A.V. and T.R.; an orator, one Tertullus for a certain orator named Tertullus, A.V.; and they for who, A.

V. After five days. Of which the first was the day on which St. Paul left Jerusalem, and the fifth that on which Ananias and his companions appeared before Felix (see , note). Tertullus. A Latin name, formed from Tertius, as Lucullus from Lucius, Catullus from Catius, etc.

Informed; ἐμφανίζω, in the sense of "laying an information" before a magistrate, only occurs elsewhere in , (see above, , note).

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