Verse 2
2. Called forth Felix has taken his seat upon the bema, an elevated platform; the high priest, rhetor, and elders are in readiness, and Paul is called or summoned from the prison apartment of the palace to its court room. Forthwith orator Tertullus opens (began) the indictment.
He avails himself most liberally of his free license (of which Paul would be deprived by his conscientiousness) of gaining the procurator’s good graces by the most fabulous flattery. His speech is divisible into two nearly equal parts compliments to Felix and the charges against Paul. The governor was flushed with his late triumph over the Egyptian insurgent, and to this nearly the whole of the orator’s eulogy skilfully points.
We Our learned barrister speaks in the name of his clients.
Thy providence Thy foresight; one of the attributes claimed by the emperors and inscribed upon the public coin. (See Hist. Revelation, § 3, at Acts 21:17.)
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