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10. ἐπὶ τοῦ βήματος Καίσαρος ἑστώς εἰμι, I am standing before Cæsar’s judgment seat. The Roman authorities had taken charge of him and had kept him in custody for two years. Of this he reminds the governor, and refuses to be turned over to another tribunal, where he would have for judges, if he ever were allowed to live till his trial, those persons who had been cognizant of the plot to murder him.
οὗ με δεῖ καίνεσθαι, where I ought to be judged, because I am a Roman citizen.
ὡς καὶ σὺ κάλλιον ἐπιγινώσκεις, as thou also very well knowest. St Paul does not mean to say that Festus is to be blamed for his proposal. Probably he saw that the governor was acting with a view to conciliate the Jews. But he intends to say that after all that the governor has heard, any man would say at once that there was no case against the prisoner.
The comparative force in κάλλιον may be brought out somewhat thus, ‘better than from your proposal to turn me over to Jews you would appear to know.’