But Paul answered, “I am not insane, most excellent Festus; I am speaking words of truth and sobriety.
25. I am not mad. Paul is not angry, neither doth he sharply reprehend Festus for his blasphemous speech; yea, he speaketh unto him with great submission. “Honorifice eum corrpellat,” addresses him in terms of honour. For it was no place for reprehension, and it became him to pardon the ignorance of the man, seeing he did not set himself face to face against God.
We have reason to think that Paul had a great deal more to say in defence of the gospel he preached, and for the honour of it, and to recommend it to the good opinion of this noble audience; he had just fallen upon that which was the life of the cause - the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and here he is in...
Commenting on Acts 26:24-32
For the king knoweth of these things,.... Something of them, of the sufferings and resurrection of the Messiah, and of his showing light to Jews and Gentiles, as they are spoken of by Moses and the prophets, whose writings Agrippa was conversant with, and of these things as fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth; at least he had heard the report of them, how that they...