Acts 25:8-11
no ....... or ..... or <3754 3777> [Neither.]
wanting .......... Are you willing <2309> [willing.]
I <1510> [I stand.]
Every procurator represented the emperor in the province over which he presided; and as the seat of government was at Cesarea, St. Paul was before the tribunal where, as a Roman citizen, he ought to be judged.
If ... I am in the wrong ................. if <1487 91> [if I.]
not one ......... no one <3762> [no man.]
I appeal <1941> [I appeal.]
An appeal to the emperor was the right of a Roman citizen, and was highly respected. The Julian law condemned those magistrates, and others, as violaters of the public peace, who had put to death, tortured, scourged, imprisoned, or condemned any Roman citizen who had appealed to Cesar. This law was so sacred and imperative, that, in the persecution under Trajan, Pliny would not attempt to put to death Roman citizens, who were proved to have turned Christians, but determined to send them to Rome, probably because they had appealed.
