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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Who having examined me," says he, "found nothing in me." When those ought to have rescued, they "delivered him into the hands of the Romans." And such the superabundance, because those had not power to condemn but delivered him prisoner. "Not as having aught to accuse my nation of," am I come. See what friendliness of expression "my nation:" he does not hold them as aliens. He does not say, I do not accuse, but, "I have not whereof to accuse:" although he had suffered so many evils at their hands. …
Oecumenius
Knowing that it was altogether inappropriate to be tried, and especially before unbelievers, Paul defends himself about both matters, so that their reports might not be anticipated. For this reason, he says, I wished you to see me, so that no one might accuse anything falsely. And he mentions the things present, that, indeed, wishing to avoid their hands, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, not as inflicting evils on others, but fleeing evils myself.
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