John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 28:20
20 For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you , and to speak with you : because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain. Ver. 20. For the hope of Israel ] That is, for the resurrection of the dead and that eternal life that Israel hopes and looks for. Hallucinantur philosophi, qui sapientem non metu solum sed et spe vacare vellent. Spes in terrenis incerti nomen boni, spes in divinis nomen est certissimi,Hebrews 11:1; Hebrews 11:1 . Hope in God, saith every... read more
John Trapp Complete Commentary - Acts 28:19
19 But when the Jews spake against it , I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of. Ver. 19. To accuse my nation of ] But to defend Christ’s cause and mine own innocence, with as little reflex on the Jews as may be. It is an ill business to defame a whole nation (one’s own especially), as Scaliger, that proud hypercritic, who gave this base and unmannerly character, Gothi belluae, Scoti non minus, Angli perfidi, inflati, feri, contemptores, stolidi,... read more