Acts 25:26

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24 And Festus said: “King Agrippa and all the men who are here present with us, you see this man about whom ^athe whole assembly of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying out that he was ^bnot fit to live any longer.

25 But when I found that ^ahe had committed nothing deserving of death, ^band that he himself had appealed to Augustus, I decided to send him.

26 I have nothing certain to write to my lord concerning him. Therefore I have brought him out before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the examination has taken place I may have something to write.

27 For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not to specify the charges against him.”

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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I have no certain thing to write - Nothing alleged against him has been substantiated.

Unto my Lord - The title , Dominus , Lord, both Augustus and Tiberius had absolutely refused; and forbade, even by public edicts, the application of it to themselves. Tiberius himself was accustomed to say that he was lord only of his slaves, emperor or general of the troops, and prince of the senate. See Suetonius, in his life of this prince. The succeeding emperors were not so modest; they affected the title. Nero, the then emperor, would have it; and Pliny the younger is continually giving it to Trajan in his letters.

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