ACTS 24:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.”
'In view of this, I also do my best to maintain always a blameless conscience both before God and before men' — Paul's moral self-examination (conscience = syneidesis) becomes his defense. He lives in conscious alignment with God and society; the claim parallels his assertion in the Sanhedrin (Acts 23:1).
Church Fathers on Acts 24:16
they themselves also allow. Acts 24:15 He does not say it of them, that they believe all things written in the Prophets: it was he that believed them all, not they: but how all, it would require a long discourse to show. And he nowhere makes mention of Christ. Here by saying, Believing, he does (virtually) introduce what relates to Christ; for the present he dwells on the subject of the resurrection, which doctrine was common to them also, and removed the suspicion of any…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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