Act 24:5. Εὑρόντες) for εὕρομεν.-ἄνδρα λοιμὸν) So 1Ma 15:3, ἄνδρες λοιμοί.-στάσεις) So the best MSS.[136] Others read ΣΤΆΣΙΝ. Sedition was an invidious term among the Romans and Jews.-πρωτοστάτην) a ringleader.-Ναζωραίων, of the Nazarenes) A name (nickname) of Christians, taken from the surname applied to our Lord, which Paul does not refuse: Act 24:14.
[136] Therefore in this passage both the margin of Ed. 2 withdraws from the larger Ed., and the Germ. Vers. agrees with the more recent decision.-E. B.
Στάσεις is the reading of ABEe Vulg. Memph. None of the oldest authorities, except both Syr. Versions and Theb., support the στάσιν of Rec. Text and Tisck.-E. and T.