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Luk 23:2. Εὕρομεν, we have found) An invidious expression [one calculated to excite odium against Him]. [But yet neither Pilate nor Herod found any ‘fault’ or “cause of death” in Him, Luk 23:4; Luk 23:14; Luk 23:22.-V. g.]-τὸ ἔθνος) The term λαὸς, the people, is applied to the Jews as contrasted with the Gentiles; but the term ἔθνος, nation, is applied to both Jews and Gentiles. Λαὸς, the people, is used in a political sense, and at the same time a sacred sense: ἔθνος, nation, is used in a genealogical or physical sense: Joh 11:50; Joh 11:52 [“It is expedient that one man should die for the people (λαοῦ), and that the whole nation (ἔθνος) perish not”]. Comp. Rev 5:9, note [Thou hast redeemed us-out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation (λαοῦ, ἔθνους)].-κωλύοντα, forbidding) as a kind of Anticæsar.-Καίσαρι, to Cæsar) By nothing else were they so much bound in devotion to Cæsar as by their hatred of Christ. The transition from spiritual to political matters is fraught with dangers.-λέγοντα, saying) By this they give an illustration of the words διαστρέφοντα, perverting, and κωλύοιτα, forbidding. From the appellation, Christ a King, they infer a double calumny as the consequence. Dismissing the latter, Pilate inquires concerning the former: [viz. the appellation, Christ the King.]