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Act 16:37. Ῥωμαίους, Romans) The citizens of Tarsus had the rights of Roman citizenship. Paul does not use the plea of his being a Roman as his principal argument, but for another reason, viz. to serve as a consideration which would have weight with his adversaries (κατʼ ἄνθρωπον). In the region which he now for the first time visited, a more specious persecution might have created the opinion that he was one of a wicked life, and this would have raised a prejudice in the way of the spreading of the Gospel. Wherefore Paul makes a solemn protestation once for all, that he is innocent. The innocence of the apostles was known at Jerusalem; for which reason they bore all things there in silence.-οὐ γὰρ) This expresses a degree of just ἀποτομία, severity, and sternness. For bitterness had no place in the apostle’s mind, especially at so gracious a season: Act 16:26; Act 16:33.-αὐτοὶ, themselves) not by the sergeants or attendants.