Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

G. xctTii nCrod : adversus eum. The union of favour with the preposition implying opposition, is quite unusual. Bloomfield suggests that it be rendered : respecting him. I prefer " to his prejudice."

G. P. have simply ten days. The Alexandrian and Parisian manuscripts, as also the Memphitic and Armenian versions, have "eight, or ten" as the Vulgate. "Grotius, and almost all the critics for the last century, unite in adopting (what Griesbach has received into the text) ttkhov; 'ear* »! Je**." Bloomfield.

Literally : concerning the charge.

G. P. "they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed."

He was son of Herod Agrippa, who had put St. James to death. He had been king of Chalcis, and was at this time king of Trachonitis. See Joseph, de Bello, 1. ii. c. xii.