32 Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.



Ver. 32. If he had not appealed] Which if he had not, this freeman of Rome had been "free among the dead," Psa_88:5, free of that company ere this time of day. There was a necessity of his appeal, for the saving of his life. And he is the better contented with his present condition, because he had been told in a vision that he must go to Rome also, Act_23:11; while it was in store, and not yet come to that- tota est iam Roma lupanar, Rome is no better than a great brothel house. That once "faithful city is now become a harlot; it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers," Isa_1:21.