9 But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?



Ver. 9. Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem?] Irreligious persons that are not acted by the Spirit of God, we see how flexible and inclinable they are to corrupt counsels and courses. Before, he would not yield to the Jews’ motion; now he would. "A double minded man is unstable in all his ways," áóôáôïò , Jam_1:6.



" Et tantum constans in levitate sua."



But should not the chief posts in a building be heart of oak? should not the standard be made of metal of proof? Fabricius is famous for his well knit resolution; sooner might a man turn the sun out of his course than draw him to do anything that was not just and equal. As, on the other side, those Athenian judges shall be infamous to all posterity, who when they had determined to condemn Phryne (that stinking strumpet), were yet drawn to acquit her, after that they beheld her beautiful bosom, which Hyperides (her advocate) had purposely laid open (pulling her clothes aside) to move them to show her mercy. (Plut. in Hyperid.)