Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 18:14

14 Bǎoluó gāng yào kāikǒu , jiā liú jiù duì Yóutaìrén shuō , nǐmen zhèxie Yóutaìrén , rúguǒ shì wéi yuān wǎng , huò jiān ĕ de shì , wǒ lǐ dàng naì xìng tīng nǐmen .

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 18:14 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 18:14

And when Paul was now about to open his mouth
In his own defence, and plead his own cause, and answer to the charge exhibited against him:

Gallio said unto the Jews, if it was matter of wrong;
of injury to any man's person or property, as murder, theft

or wicked lewdness;
as fraud, forgery, perjury, treason

O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:
his sense is, that it would be according to right reason, and agreeably to his office as a judge, to admit them and their cause, and try it, and hear them patiently, and what was to be said on both sides of the question, what the charges were, and the proof of them, and what the defendant had to say for himself. The Vulgate Latin version reads, "O men Jews"; and so Beza's ancient copy.

Shǐtúxíngzhuàn 18:14 In-Context

12 Dào jiā liú zuò yà gāi yà fāng bó de shíhou , Yóutaìrén tóngxīn qǐlai gōngjī Bǎoluó , lá tā dào gōng táng ,

13 Shuō , zhège rén quàn rén bù àn zhe lǜfǎ jìngbaì shén .

14 Bǎoluó gāng yào kāikǒu , jiā liú jiù duì Yóutaìrén shuō , nǐmen zhèxie Yóutaìrén , rúguǒ shì wéi yuān wǎng , huò jiān ĕ de shì , wǒ lǐ dàng naì xìng tīng nǐmen .

15 Dàn suǒ zhēnglùn de , ruò shì guān hū yányǔ , míng mù , hé nǐmen de lǜfǎ , nǐmen zìjǐ qù biàn bā . zhèyàng de shì wǒ bù yuànyì shĕnwèn .

16 Jiù bǎ tāmen niǎn chū gōng táng .