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Act 23:24. Κτήνη τε παραστῆσαι, and to get ready beasts) From the recitative style a transition is here made to the relative (narrative), differently from what had been begun with in Act 23:22 : for in the recitative style the form of expression should be διασώζητε, that ye may bring him safe, not διασώσωσι, that they might bring him safe. Moreover the relative (narrative) style is appropriate to the subject itself: because the tribune (chief captain) did not immediately intimate what was the cause of their journey.-ἐπιβιβάσαντες, having set on) We read but once of Paul having been mounted on horseback, and that not of his own accord: comp. ch. Act 20:13.-ἡγεμόνα, the governor) There is subjoined in more recent Latin copies, “Timuit enim, ne forte raperent eum Judæi et occiderent, et ipse postea calumniam sustineret, tanquam accepturus pecuniam.” And so the Germ. Bible of Mentz, printed in A.D. 1462, with these words omitted, “tanquam accepturus pecuniam.”[135]
[135] It is only later copies of Vulg. and the later Syr. with an asterisk which have this addition. Vulg. Amiatinus and the best MSS. are without it.-E. and T.