Acts 23:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Scribe is a name denoting an office or place; and the sribes were men skilled in the law. A spirit or an angel; ome take the latter to be exegetical of the former, and that by a spirit is only meant an angel; by such messengers God many times sending his messages to the children of men. Yet others by spirit understand prophetical revelation, and the Spirit of prophecy, which was expected to be shed abroad in large measures about that time; as appears, 1 Thessalonians 7:39. Let us not fight against God: See Poole on "Acts 5:39".

Acts 23:9

9 And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.