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commentaryMatthew Henry on Acts 23:1-5See here the character of an honest man. He sets God before him, and lives as in his sight. He makes conscience of what he says and does, and, according to the best of his knowledge, he keeps from whatever is evil, and…Matthew HenrycommentaryPaul's Second DefencePAUL'S SECOND DEFENCE. Perhaps when Paul was brought, as he often was (corpus cum causa—the person and the cause together), before heathen magistrates and councils, where he and his cause were slighted, because not at a…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Acts 23:1Good conscience before God? Those first words of Paul's defense, which so greatly excited and angered the high priest, are capable of being taken in more senses than one. We may regard them in— I. THE SENSE IN WHICH THE…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Acts 23:1-11Policy. The characteristic quality of an Israelite indeed, as our Lord has taught us, is to be without guile. All kinds of trickery, deceit, false pretences, disguises, dissimulation, as well as downright falsehood, are…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Acts 23:1A good conscience. Joubert says, "The trick of personifying words is a fatal source of mischief in theology." The personifying has been mischievously applied to the word "conscience," and we make it into a kind of separ…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Acts 23:1Looking steadfastly on for earnestly beholding, A.V.; brethren for men and brethren, A.V.; I have lived before God, etc., for I have lived, etc., before God, A.V. Looking steadfastly; ἀτενίσας, as in Acts 1:10; Acts 3…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Acts 23:1-5A threefold example of true greatness. Every careful reader of the Testament is aware that there is obscurity present to a certain degree in this passage. The obscurity is of a nature not very likely to yield to timid t…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Acts 23:1-10Paul before the Sanhedrim. I. A SUGGESTIVE CONTRAST between corrupt ecclesiasticism and secular power. The bigotry, intolerance, personal animosity, unfairness, fanatical cruelty, all finding abundant confirmation in th…Joseph S. Exell and contributors