Acts 25:5 - Expostion

Saith for said, A.V.; which are of power among you for which among you are able, A.V.; if there is anything amiss in the man, let them accuse him for accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him, A.V. Which are of power among you ; i.e. your chief men, or, as we should say, your best men, which would include ability to conduct the accusation as well as mere station. Josephus frequently uses δυνατοί in the sense of "men of rank and power and influence," ἰουδαίων οἱ δυνατώτατοι ('Ant. Jud.,' 14. 13.1); ἤκον ἰουδαίων οἱ δυνατοί ('Bell. Jud.,' 1. 12.4), etc. (see 1 Corinthians 1:26 ; Revelation 6:15 ; and the passages from Thucydides, Xenophon, and Philo, quoted by Kuinoel). The rendering of the A.V., though defensible, is less natural and less in accordance with the genius of the language. Amiss ; ἄτοπον , but many manuscripts omit ἄτοπον , leaving the sense, however, the same.