Acts 25:26 - Expostion

King for O king, A.V.; may for might, A.V. My lord ( τῷ κυτίῳ ). Suetonius tells us that Augustus abhorred the title of "lord," and looked upon it as a curse and an insult when applied to himself. Tiberius also ('Life of Tiberius,' 27), being once called "lord" ( dominus ) by some one, indignantly repudiated the title. But it was frequently applied to Trajan by Pithy, and the later emperors seem to have accepted it. It was likely to grow up first in the East. Examination ; ἀνακρίσεως , here only in the New Testament; but it is found in 3 Macc. 7:4 in the same sense as here, viz. of a judicial examination (the complaint being that Jews were put to death ἄνευ πάσης ἀνακρίσεως καὶ ἐξετάσεως ) ; specially the precious examination of the prisoner made for the information of the judge who was to try the case. At Athens the ἀνάκρισις was a preliminary examination held to decide whether an action at law should be allowed. The verb ἀνακρίνω , to examine, occurs six times in the Gospel of St. Luke and the Acts ( Luke 23:1-56 . 14; Acts 4:9 ; Acts 12:19 , etc.), and ten times in St. Paul's Epistles.