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And they have all been informed, it says, about you, that you teach apostasy from Moses to all the Jews among the Gentiles, telling them not to circumcise their children, nor to walk in the customs. He did not say, “They heard;” but, “They have been informed,” that is, they were taught and believed, that you teach apostasy from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children, nor to walk in the customs. Having said this, he added: What then is to be done? The multitude must by all means come together; for they will hear that you have come. Do therefore this that we say to you. They say these things as counselors, not as commanders. We have four men who have a vow on themselves. Take them and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses, so that they may shave their heads, and all may know that those things of which they have been informed about you are nothing, but that you yourself also walk orderly, keeping the law. They advise him to make his defense by deed, not by word. So that they may shave their heads, it says, and all may know that those things of which they have been informed about you are nothing. They did not say, “that you teach,” but “have been informed,” again by this 60.322 signifying “they were taught,” and that “you walk orderly,” that is, you yourself also keep it abundantly. For this was not the only point of concern, whether he does not teach others, but that he himself also observes it. What then, if the Gentiles learn of it, will they not be scandalized, he says? How? when even we, the teachers of the Jews, have sent to them. But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we have written, having decided that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. Here it is reproachfully. What he says is this: Just as we enjoined them, though we preach to Jews, so you also, though you preach to Gentiles, cooperate with us. See Paul; he does not say, “And yet I can bring forward Timothy, whom I circumcised;” “and yet I can persuade them with words;” but he was persuaded by them, and did everything; for so it was expedient. For it was not the same to enter into a defense, and to do these things with no one knowing. To also be paying the expenses was above suspicion. Then Paul took the men, and the next day, having purified himself with them, he entered into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for each one of them. Declaring, that is, announcing, so that he himself was the one making himself known. And when the seven days were about to be completed. 2. See how he especially spends time among them. The Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the crowd, and laid hands on him, crying out: Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place; and furthermore he has also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place. See their character, everywhere turbulent, and simply shouting in the midst. For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple. And all the city was moved, and the people ran together; and they laid hold of Paul, and dragged him out of the temple; and immediately the doors were shut. Men of Israel, help, it says. This is the man who is against the people, and the law, and this place. The things that especially troubled them, the temple and the law, these they bring forward. And Paul did not blame the apostles for anything, though he suffered so many things, saying that they had been the cause of these things for him; so great-souled was he. And they dragged him, it says, out of the temple; and the doors were shut. For they wanted to kill him, and for this reason they dragged him outside, so as to do this with greater impunity. And as they were seeking to kill him, news came up to the tribune of the cohort, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar; who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. And when they saw the tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul. Then the tribune came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and he inquired, who he might be and

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Καὶ αὐτοὶ πάντες κατηχήθησαν, φησὶ, περὶ σοῦ, ὅτι ἀποστασίαν διδάσκεις ἀπὸ Μωϋσέως τοὺς κατὰ τὰ ἔθνη πάντας Ἰουδαίους, λέγων μὴ περιτέμνειν αὐτοὺς τὰ τέκνα, μηδὲ τοῖς ἔθεσι περιπατεῖν. Οὐκ εἶπον, Ἤκουσαν· ἀλλὰ, Κατηχήθησαν, τουτέστιν, ἐδιδάχθησαν καὶ ἐπίστευσαν, ὅτι ἀποστασίαν ἀπὸ Μωϋσέως διδάσκεις, λέγων μὴ περιτέμνειν αὐτοὺς τὰ τέκνα, μηδὲ τοῖς ἔθεσι περιπατεῖν. Τοῦτο εἰπὼν, ἐπήγαγε· Τί οὖν ἐστι; Πάντως δεῖ πλῆθος συνελθεῖν· ἀκούσονται γὰρ, ὅτι ἐλήλυθας. Τοῦτο οὖν ποίησον ὅ σοι λέγομεν. Ὡς συμβουλεύοντες ταῦτα λέγουσιν, οὐχ ὡς ἐπιτάττοντες. Εἰσὶν ἡμῖν ἄνδρες τέσσαρες, εὐχὴν ἔχοντες ἐφ' ἑαυτῶν. Τούτους παραλαβὼν ἁγνίσθητι σὺν αὐτοῖς, καὶ δαπάνησον ἐπ' αὐτοῖς, ἵνα ξυρήσωνται τὴν κεφαλὴν, καὶ γνῶσι πάντες, ὅτι ὧν κατήχηνται περὶ σοῦ, οὐδέν ἐστιν, ἀλλὰ στοιχεῖς καὶ αὐτὸς φυλάσσων τὸν νόμον. Ἔργῳ τὴν ἀπολογίαν ποιῆσαι αὐτῷ συμβουλεύουσιν, οὐ λόγῳ. Ἵνα ξυρήσωνται, φησὶ, καὶ γνῶσι πάντες, ὅτι ὧν κατήχηνται περὶ σοῦ, οὐδέν ἐστιν. Οὐκ εἶπον, ὅτι ∆ιδάσκεις, ἀλλὰ Κατήχηνται, πάλιν τὸ ἐδιδάχθησαν διὰ 60.322 τούτου δηλῶν, καὶ ὅτι Στοιχεῖς, τουτέστιν, ἐκ περιουσίας καὶ αὐτὸς φυλάττεις. Οὐ γὰρ δὴ τοῦτο μόνον ἦν τὸ σπουδαζόμενον, εἰ μὴ ἑτέρους διδάσκει, ἀλλ' ὅτι καὶ αὐτὸς τηρεῖ. Τί οὖν, ἂν τὰ ἔθνη μάθωσιν, οὐ σκανδαλισθήσονται, φησί; Πῶς; ὅπου καὶ ἡμεῖς οἱ τῶν Ἰουδαίων διδάσκαλοι ἐπέμψαμεν πρὸς αὐτούς. Περὶ δὲ τῶν πεπιστευκότων ἐθνῶν ἡμεῖς ἐπεστείλαμεν, κρίναντες μηδὲν τοιοῦτον τηρεῖν αὐτοὺς, εἰ μὴ φυλάσσεσθαι αὐτοὺς τὸ εἰδωλόθυτον καὶ τὸ αἷμα καὶ τὸ πνικτὸν καὶ πορνείαν. Ἐνταῦθα ἐντρεπτικῶς. Ὃ δὲ λέγει, τοῦτό ἐστιν· Ὥσπερ ἡμεῖς ἐκείνοις ἐπετάξαμεν, καίτοι γε Ἰουδαίοις κηρύττοντες, οὕτω καὶ σὺ, καίτοι ἔθνεσι κηρύττων, σύμπραξον ἡμῖν. Ὅρα τὸν Παῦλον· οὐ λέγει, Καὶ μὴν δύναμαι Τιμόθεον παραγαγεῖν, ὃν περιέτεμον· καὶ μὴν δύναμαι πεῖσαι τῷ λόγῳ· ἀλλ' ἐπείσθη αὐτοῖς, καὶ πάντα ἐποίησε· καὶ γὰρ οὕτω συνέφερεν. Οὐ γὰρ ἦν ἴσον εἰς ἀπολογίαν καταστῆναι, καὶ οὐδενὸς εἰδότος ποιῆσαι ταῦτα. Ἀνύποπτον ἦν τὸ καὶ δαπανᾶσθαι. Τότε παραλαβὼν ὁ Παῦλος τοὺς ἄνδρας, καὶ τῇ ἐχομένῃ ἡμέρᾳ σὺν αὐτοῖς ἁγνισθεὶς εἰσῄει εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν, διαγγέλλων τὴν ἐκπλήρωσιν τῶν ἡμερῶν τοῦ ἁγνισμοῦ, ἕως οὗ προσηνέχθη ὑπὲρ ἑνὸς ἑκάστου αὐτῶν ἡ προσφορά. ∆ιαγγέλλων, τουτέστι, καταγγέλλων ὥστε αὐτὸς ἦν ὁ δῆλον ἑαυτὸν ποιῶν. Ὡς δὲ ἔμελλον αἱ ἑπτὰ ἡμέραι συντελεῖσθαι. βʹ. Ὅρα πῶς μάλιστα δὴ αὐτοῖς ἐγχρονίζει. Οἱ ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀσίας Ἰουδαῖοι, θεασάμενοι αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ, συνέχεον πάντα τὸν ὄχλον, καὶ ἐπέβαλον ἐπ' αὐτὸν τὰς χεῖρας, κράζοντες· Ἄνδρες Ἰσραηλῖται, βοηθεῖτε· οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ ἄνθρωπος ὁ κατὰ τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ τοῦ νόμου καὶ τοῦ τόπου τούτου πάντας πανταχοῦ διδάσκων· ἔτι τε καὶ Ἕλληνας εἰσήγαγεν εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν, καὶ κεκοίνωκε τὸν ἅγιον τόπον τοῦτον. Ὅρα τὸ ἦθος αὐτῶν πανταχοῦ ταραχῶδες, καὶ ἁπλῶς βοώντων ἐν τῷ μέσῳ. Ἦσαν γὰρ ἑωρακότες Τρόφιμον τὸν Ἐφέσιον ἐν τῇ πόλει σὺν αὐτῷ, ὃν ἐνόμιζον ὅτι εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν εἰσήγαγεν ὁ Παῦλος. Ἐκινήθη τε ἡ πόλις ὅλη, καὶ ἐγένετο συνδρομὴ τοῦ λαοῦ· καὶ ἐπιλαβόμενοι τοῦ Παύλου, εἷλκον αὐτὸν ἔξω τοῦ ἱεροῦ· καὶ εὐθέως ἐκλείσθησαν αἱ θύραι. Ἄνδρες Ἰσραηλῖται, βοηθεῖτε, φησίν. Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ ἄνθρωπος ὁ κατὰ τοῦ λαοῦ καὶ τοῦ νόμου καὶ τοῦ τόπου τούτου. Ἃ μάλιστα αὐτοὺς ἐθορύβει ὁ ναὸς καὶ ὁ νόμος, ταῦτα προφέρουσι ἐκεῖνοι. Καὶ οὐδὲν ἐνεκάλεσε τοῖς ἀποστόλοις ὁ Παῦλος παθὼν καίτοι τοσαῦτα, ὅτι αὐτοὶ αἴτιοι τούτων γεγόνασιν αὐτῷ· οὕτως ἦν μεγαλόψυχος. Καὶ εἷλκον αὐτὸν, φησὶν, ἔξω τοῦ ἱεροῦ· καὶ ἐκλείσθησαν αἱ θύραι. Ἐβούλοντο γὰρ αὐτὸν ἀνελεῖν καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἔξω εἷλκον, ὥστε μετὰ πλείονος ἀδείας τοῦτο ποιῆσαι. Ζητούντων δὲ αὐτὸν ἀποκτεῖναι, ἀνέβη φάσις τῷ χιλιάρχῳ τῆς σπείρας, ὅτι ὅλη συγκέχυται Ἱερουσαλήμ· ὃς ἐξαυτῆς παραλαβὼν στρατιώτας καὶ ἑκατοντάρχους, κατέδραμεν ἐπ' αὐτούς. Οἱ δὲ ἰδόντες τὸν χιλίαρχον καὶ τοὺς στρατιώτας, ἐπαύσαντο τύπτοντες τὸν Παῦλον. Τότε ἐγγίσας ὁ χιλίαρχος, ἐπελάβετο αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐκέλευσε δεθῆναι ἁλύσεσι δυσί· καὶ ἐπυνθάνετο, τίς ἂν εἴη καὶ