“Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.”
ordering his accusers to come before you — Tertullus frames Lysias's order to the prosecutors as yet another Roman intervention, suggesting that Rome is siding with the prisoner against legitimate accusers. The rhetorical effect is to position the Jews as victims of Roman favoritism.
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