But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
Ver. 19. But had certain questions] See how basely this profane fellow speaketh of God's true service. These cocks on the dunghill know not the price of that pearl, and do therefore avile it. They took occasion also from the contentions of the Church's doctors, to condemn their doctrine. It was therefore a devilish device of Julian the Apostate, to call home those heterodox and heretical bishops that had been banished by Constantine, that they might embroil and darken the Church by their mutual discords among themselves, and so bring the Christian religion into disgrace.