Godbey's Commentary - Acts - Romans - Enter His Rest

churchism and fall in with a few despised Nazarenes, he here shows up very beautifully the integrity
of a civil officer, contrasting conspicuously with the falsifications, hypocrisy and rascality
manifested by the high-priest and the leading ministers of the Jewish church, revealing the sad fact
that when preachers are blindly manipulated by the devil, they are decidedly more unjust, cruel and
bloodthirsty than civil rulers, though also in the hands of Satan. Ecclesiastical law, when out of
harmony with the Bible, and manipulated by the devil through a fallen clergy, is cruel as the grave
and merciless as hell. Wisely did Paul appeal from it to Cæsar. While Agrippa manifested no
sympathy with Paul’s religion, unlike those blood-hounds, i.e., the leading preachers of the fallen
church, clamorous for innocent blood, he pronounced an unequivocal verdict of innocence in behalf
of Paul.