Acts 23:33
Who, when they were come to Caesarea, and had delivered the letter to the governor, did also present Paul before him.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Qui cum venissent Cæsaream, et tradidissent epistolam præsidi, statuerunt ante illum et Paulum.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- οἵτινες εἰσελθόντες εἰς τὴν Καισάρειαν καὶ ἀναδόντες τὴν ἐπιστολὴν τῷ ἡγεμόνι παρέστησαν καὶ τὸν Παῦλον αὐτῷ.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Answer to the Letters of Petilian, the Donatist, Chapter 93
206. And when is that fulfilled, you will say, which the Lord declares, "The time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service"? At any rate neither can this be said of the heathen, who persecuted Christians, not for the sake of God, but for the sake of their idols. You do not see that if this had been said of these emperors who rejoice in the name of Christian, their chief command would certainly have been this, that you should have been put to death; and this command they never gave at all. But the men of your party, by opposing the laws in hostile fashion, bring deserved punishment on themselves; and their own voluntary deaths, so long as they think that they bring odium on us, they consider in no wise ruinous to themselves. …
St Augustine Answer to the Letters of Petilian, the Donatist, Chapter 98
224. Augustin answered: We put no confidence in man, but, so far as we can, we warn men to place their trust in the Lord; nor do we put confidence in princes, but, so far as we can, we warn princes to put confidence in the Lord. And though we may seek aid from princes to promote the advantage of the Church, yet do we not put confidence in them. For neither did the apostle himself put confidence in that tribune, in the sense in which the Psalmist talks of putting confidence in princes, from whom he obtained for himself that an escort of armed men should be assigned to him; nor did he put confidence in the armed men, by whose protection he escaped the snares of the wicked ones, in any such sense as that of the Psalmist where he speaks of putting confidence in men. …
St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily L on Acts xxiii. 31-33
Acts XXIII. 31, 32, 33 “Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris. On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle: who, when they came to Cæsarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him.”
St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily L on Acts xxiii. 31-33
(Recapitulation.) “Then the soldiers,” etc. ( v. 31-33 .) ( a ) This also made Paul famous in Cæsarea, his coming with so large a force. “But,” says Tertullus, “that I be not further tedious,” ( e ) showing that (Felix) does find him tedious ( ἐγκόπτεται ): “I beseech thee,” he does not say, Hear the matter, but, “hear us of thy clemency.” ( ch. xxiv. 4 .) Probably it is to pay court, that he thus lays out his speech. ( g ) “For having found this man, a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world” ( v. 5 ): how then, it might be said, if he did this elsewhere (and not here)? No, says he; among us also he has profaned the Temple; “attempted,” says he, “to profane it:” but the how, he leaves untold. “Whom also we took.” etc. “But the tribune,” etc. …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).