Acts 25:11

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if I.

Acts 18:14; Josh 22:22; 1Sam 12:3-5; Job 31:21; Job 31:38-40; Ps 7:3-5

no man.

Acts 16:37; Acts 22:25; 1Thess 2:15

I appeal.

An appeal to the emperor was the right of a Roman citizen, and was highly respected.

The Julian law condemned those magistrates, and others, as violaters of the public peace, who had put to death, tortured, scourged, imprisoned, or condemned any Roman citizen who had appealed to Cesar.

This law was so sacred and imperative, that, in the persecution under Trajan, Pliny would not attempt to put to death Roman citizens, who were proved to have turned Christians, but determined to send them to Rome, probably because they had appealed.

Acts 25:10; Acts 25:25; Acts 26:32; Acts 28:19; 1Sam 27:1