ACTS 18:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And he drave them from the judgment seat.”
So he drove them off the place of judgment — Gallio's forcible removal (apo tou bēmatos, from the judgment seat) of the accusers signals Roman impatience with Jewish legal harassment. The scene exemplifies how Roman legal indifference inadvertently protects Christian expansion.
Church Fathers on Acts 18:16
Saying, This fellow seduces men contrary to the law to worship God. And when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said: If indeed it were any wrong-doing or wicked lewdness, O you Jews, reason would that I should bear with you. But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters. And he drove them from the judgment-seat. Acts 18:13-16 This Gallio seems to me to have been a sensible man. (a) Thus observe, when…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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