Acts 24:6

Acts 24:6. Who also hath gone about to profane the temple:— Tertullus artfully mentions this as the most express fact he had to charge upon him, well knowing that the Romans allowed the Jews a power of executing, even without forms of law, any person who should be found in any such act of profanation; and he seems to have designed to make a merit of their moderation, that they intended, nevertheless, fairly to have tried him, and not to have destroyed him on the spot, as Lysias had justly charged them with attempting: and it is observable, that Tertullus no where expressly avows so much as a design to have put St. Paul to death, though it was undoubtedly intended, The expression, with great violence took him, Act 24:7 is another base and false insinuation of this orator, as if Lysias's just care of the life of a man had stopped the course of justice, and been an act of the highest outrage.