Verse 20
20. Magistrates The pretors, for so the duumviri, or twin magistrates, claimed to be called. Saying It was difficult to frame a charge against them. Had a pig been stolen from them there was law in their behalf, but no compensation for a lost demon. To have restored the unhappy maid from her unhappy condition fit emblem of the salvation she ascribed to them was a beneficent deed which Roman justice could adjudge to be no crime.
These men But a mob, with a magistrate to match, will be at no loss for a charge against their common victim.
Being Jews… being Romans Here is an antithesis amply sufficient to start a temper, and the deeds will easily be supplied with a pretext. The Jews had lately been expelled from Rome as troublers of that city; and why should not this proud little Macedonian image of Rome enact the same measure?
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