5Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.
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Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. …
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Perhaps when Paul was brought, as he often was ( corpus cum causa—the person and the cause together ), before heathen magistrates and councils, where he and his cause were slighted, because not at all understood, he thought, if he were brought before the sanhedrim at Jerusalem, he should be able to deal with them to some good purpose, and yet we do not find that he works at all upon them. Here we…
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