ACTS 25:27 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.”
'For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner to the Emperor without specifying the charges against him.' - Festus's final statement is quintessentially Roman: a magistrate cannot address the Emperor without a clear case, charges articulated, and evidence presented. His phrase 'unreasonable' (alogos, alogos-'irrational, contrary to reason') appeals to logical necessity. This sets up chapter 26, where Paul will speak, and his testimony itself will become the charge and the defense, the accusation and the vindication.
Church Fathers on Acts 25:27
And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, you see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer. But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself has appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him. Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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