Atos 25
John Phillips · Citado em PreceptAustin
Atos 25
Phillips wrote, “Poor Festus. He had in his custody heaven’s greatest ambassador, the most eloquent and gifted missionary ever to bless mankind; a man greater far than any Caesar of Rome or any philosopher of Greece. And Festus failed to see it. He was in touch with truths that are the most sublime in all the world, and he did not know it...Thus destiny and eternity came and knocked, but Festus could not be bothered to so much as go to the door.” (Exploring Acts) Jack Arnold comments that "Festus’ attitude was, “Did you ever hear of such a thing as a man coming back to life? Isn't that ridiculous? And isn't it ridiculous that these Jews, on the grounds of such a ridiculous charge that Paul believes this, want me to put him to death?” Festus was a thoroughgoing rationalist, humanist and anti -supernaturalist." Acts 25:20 "Being at a loss how to investigate such matters, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there stand trial on these matters. NET Acts 25:20 Because I was at a loss how I could investigate these matters, I asked if he were willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges. GNT Acts 25:20 ἀπορούμενος δὲ ἐγὼ τὴν περὶ τούτων ζήτησιν ἔλεγον εἰ βούλοιτο πορεύεσθαι εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα κἀκεῖ κρίνεσθαι περὶ τούτων. NLT Acts 25:20 I was at a loss to know how to investigate these things, so I asked him whether he would be willing to stand trial on these charges in Jerusalem. KJV Acts 25:20 And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters. ESV Acts 25:20 Being at a loss how to investigate these questions, I asked whether he wanted to go to Jerusalem and be tried there regarding them. CSB Acts 25:20 Since I was at a loss in a dispute over such things, I asked him if he wished to go to Jerusalem and be tried there concerning these matters. NIV Acts 25:20 I was at a loss how to investigate such matters; so I asked if he would be willing to go to Jerusalem and stand trial there on these charges. NKJ Acts 25:20 "And because I was uncertain of such questions, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be judged concerning these matters. NRS Acts 25:20 Since I was at a loss how to investigate these questions, I asked whether he wished to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges. YLT Acts 25:20 and I, doubting in regard to the question concerning this, said, If he would wish to go on to Jerusalem, and there to be judged concerning these things -- I asked: Ac 25:9 Acts 25 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries FESTUS CONFESSES INADEQUACY Being at a loss how to investigate such matters - Festus realized he did not know how to handle this kind of religious case. How could he investigate a dead man who had supposedly come to life. His attitude recalls Paul's description of natural men But a natural man does not accept (dechomai = welcome) the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised. (1 Cor 2:14+). Longenecker adds "With a shrug of his shoulders, Festus confessed his total inadequacy to deal with them." (EBC) Being at a loss (perplexed - present tense) (639)(aporeo/aporeomai) means literally to be without a way or path, not to know which way to turn, to be at a loss, to be uncertain, to be "dazed and confused" Vine says aporeomai is literally “to be without a way in which to go,” and so to be puzzled, to be at a loss as to what to think or what to do as Jacob was about his brother Esau (Genesis 32:7 = Lxx use of aporeomai which renders "distressed") Investigate (2214)(zetesis from zeteo = to seek) was used by the Greeks to indicate philosophical inquiry. Vine says first it means "a seeking" and then "a debate, dispute, questioning." In the present passage Festus means a search for information.
Atos 25
Phillips wrote, “What a display of scarlet and purple, burnished brass and glittering steel, silks and jewels, marble and gold—Pomp!” And entered the auditorium accompanied by the commanders - This would have been the five tribunes commanding the five cohorts stationed at Caesarea. Auditorium (201)(akroaterion from akroaomai = to listen + -terion = suffix denoting place) hall of hearing, place for a hearing, place of audience, or listening. (Latin = auditorium) Louw-Nida - a relatively large building normally used for legal hearings, though possibly also employed for more general purposes - 'audience hall, auditorium.' BDAG - "audience hall (Lat. auditorium) of the procurator, in which hearings were held and justice was privately dispensed." Gilbrant - Bullinger says: “Among the Greeks, (this word refers to) the lecture room; among the Romans, to the place of trial” (“Hearing, place of,” Critical Lexicon and Concordance). This term occurs only in Acts 25:23. The akroatērion was a recitation place reserved exclusively to hear matters common to all hearers, similar to an auditorium or town hall. Commanders (5506)(chiliarchos) commanders of a thousand men and in Roman military organization a tribune. And the prominent men of the city - prominent before men but not in the eyes of God. Oh, how easy we all fall into the trap of wanting to be people pleasers, worried about what others think about us, etc, etc. Prominent (1851)(exoche from execho = stand out, project from - in turn from ek = out + echo = to have, be) literally standing out, prominence; ‘something. that projects from a surface. Figuratively, of persons in high position distinction, prominence. Thayer - 1. properly, in Greek writings any prominence or projection, as the peak or summit of a mountain (Job 39:28 the Septuagint); in medical writings a protuberance, swelling, wart, etc. 2. metaphorically, eminence, excellence, superiority. Gilbrant on exoche - The basic meaning of this word is “projection” or “prominence,” e.g., a mountain peak. In its only occurrence in the Septuagint it is translated “upon the crag (projecting point) of the rock” (Job 39:28). Exochē is used with the preposition kata (2567) in its only New Testament occurrence (Acts 25:23). Here “prominence, jutting out” takes on a symbolic sense of standing out, rather than that of physically doing so. Hence it may be translated “eminent, principal, prominent, or leading” men of the city.