Acts 25:5. Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me. Bengel suggests that the expression, ‘which among you are able,' signifies ‘those among you which are able to perform the journey.' It is better, however, to understand the meaning to be ‘those among you which are invested with official authority.' This best reproduces the force of the Greek words οι ̔ δυνατοί. Festus, in his natural desire to gratify the influential persons of the nation over whom he was placed, never forgot that the accused was a Roman citizen.

And accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him. The older MSS. read only, ‘if there be anything in him;' in other words, if there be any real grounds upon which he, as a Roman, ought to be again formally tried.

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