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4. ἀπεκρίθη τηρεῖσθαι τὸν Παῦλον εἰς Καισάρειαν, he answered that Paul was kept in charge at Cæsarea. The governor’s position was that the prisoner had been placed by his predecessor in a certain state of custody, and that this could not be interfered with.
ἑαυτὸν δὲ μέλλειν ἐν τάχει ἐκπορεύεσθαι, and that he himself was about to depart thither shortly. A governor newly arrived must move about actively, and could not remain long even in the capital. To have waited till all the arrangements, which the accusing party were supposed to be ready to make, were complete, would have consumed time, which must be occupied in learning the details of his provincial charge.
For ἐν τάχει, cf. Act 7:7, Act 22:18, above.