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Acts 25:25

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

I found … I determined for when I found … I have determined, A.V. and T.R.; as for that, A.V. and T.R.; appealed for hath appealed, A.V.; the emperor for Augustus, A.V. Nothing worthy of death (see Acts 23:1-35.

29; and comp. Luke 23:1-56. 4, 15). I determined. The A.V., "when I found … I have determined," is hardly good grammar according to our present usage. It should be "determined," unless "when" is equivalent to "inasmuch as."

If "when" expresses a point of past time from which the act of determining started, the perfect is improper in modern English. The same remark applies to the next verse, "I have brought him forth … that I might."

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