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 {Whom Jason hath received} (hous hupodedektai Ias(936e)).
Present perfect middle indicative of hupodechomai, to
entertain, old verb, but in N.T. only in  Lu 10:38  19:6  Ac
17:7  Jas 2:25 . This is Jason's crime and he is the prisoner
before the politarchs. {These all} (houtoi pantes). Jason, the
"brethren" of verse  6 , Paul and Silas, and all Christians
everywhere. {Contrary} (apenanti). Late compound preposition
(apo, en, anti) found in Polybius, LXX, here only in the N.T.
{The decrees of Caesar} (	(936e) dogmat(936e) Kaisaros). This was a
charge of treason and was a sure way to get a conviction.
Probably the Julian _Leges Majestatis_ are in mind rather than
the definite decree of Claudius about the Jews ( Ac 18:2 ).
{Saying that there is another king, one Jesus} (Basilea heteron
legontes einai I(8873)oun). Note the very order of the words in the
Greek indirect discourse with the accusative and infinitive after
legontes. Basilea heteron comes first, a different king,
another emperor than Caesar. This was the very charge that the
smart student of the Pharisees and Herodians had tried to catch
Jesus on ( Mr 12:14 ). The Sanhedrin made it anyhow against Jesus
to Pilate ( Lu 23:2 ) and Pilate had to notice it. "Although the
emperors never ventured to assume the title _rex_ at Rome, in the
Eastern provinces they were regularly termed _basileus_" (Page).
The Jews here, as before Pilate ( Joh 19:15 ), renounce their
dearest hope of a Messianic king. It is plain that Paul had
preached about Jesus as the Messiah, King of the Kingdom of God
over against the Roman Empire, a spiritual kingdom, to be sure,
but the Jews here turn his language to his hurt as they did with
Jesus. As a matter of fact Paul's preaching about the kingdom and
the second coming of Christ was gravely misunderstood by the
Christians at Thessalonica after his departure ( 1Th 4:13-5:4  2Th 2 ). The Jews were quick to seize upon his language about
Jesus Christ to his own injury. Clearly here in Thessalonica Paul
had faced the power of the Roman Empire in a new way and pictured
over against it the grandeur of the reign of Christ.

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