Atti 26:4

4 Quale adunque sia stata, dalla mia giovanezza, la mia maniera di vivere, fin dal principio, per mezzo la mia nazione in Gerusalemme, tutti i Giudei lo sanno.

Atti 26:4 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 26:4

My manner of life, from my youth
That is, his conduct and deportment, his behaviour among men, from the time that he was capable of performing religious exercises, and of knowing the difference between one sect and another, and of being observed and taken notice of by men:

which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem;
for though he was born in Tarsus in Cilicia, he was very early brought, or sent by his parents to Jerusalem, where he had his education under Gamaliel; so that the first part of his life was spent in Jerusalem, the metropolis of Judea, and among the Jews there; the more learned and knowing part of them, Gamaliel's pupils, and the wise men and their disciples: and his course of life must be well known to them, as he says,

this know all the Jews;
that had any knowledge of him, and conversation with him.

Atti 26:4 In-Context

2 Re Agrippa, io mi reputo felice di dover oggi purgarmi davanti a te di tutte le cose, delle quali sono accusato da’ Giudei.

3 Principalmente, sapendo che tu hai conoscenza di tutti i riti, e quistioni, che son fra i Giudei; perciò ti prego che mi ascolti pazientemente.

4 Quale adunque sia stata, dalla mia giovanezza, la mia maniera di vivere, fin dal principio, per mezzo la mia nazione in Gerusalemme, tutti i Giudei lo sanno.

5 Poichè mi hanno innanzi conosciuto fin dalla mia prima età, e sanno se voglion renderne testimonianza, che secondo la più squisita setta della nostra religione, son vissuto Fariseo.

6 Ed ora, io sto a giudicio per la speranza della promessa fatta da Dio a’ padri.