Acts 24:8
Commanding his accusers to come to thee: of whom thou mayest thyself, by examination, have knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- jubens accusatores ejus ad te venire : a quo poteris ipse judicans, de omnibus istis cognoscere, de quibus nos accusamus eum.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- παρʼ οὗ δυνήσῃ αὐτὸς ἀνακρίνας περὶ πάντων τούτων ἐπιγνῶναι ὧν ἡμεῖς κατηγοροῦμεν αὐτοῦ.
Haydock's commentary
From him thou...mayest know. By the construction it is doubtful whether from Lysias, or from St. Paul. (Witham)
Behold them here ready to support the heads of accusation I have brought forward, and which are moreover so self-evident, that the party accused will not dare to deny them. (Bible de Vence)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily L on Acts xxiii. 31-33
Like some king whom his body-guards escort, so did these convey Paul; in such numbers too, and by night, for fear of the wrath of the people. Now then you will say that they have got him out of the city, they desist from their violence? No indeed. But (the tribune) would not have sent him off with such care for his safety, but that while he himself had found nothing amiss in him, he knew the murderous disposition of his adversaries. “And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia; I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come.” Already Lysias has spoken for his exculpation; (but the Jews seek to) gain the hearer beforehand. “And he ordered him to be kept in custody in Herod’s prætorium” ( v. 34, 35 ): again Paul is put in bonds. …
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).