Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 18:17

17 Then all the Greeks took So[illegible: 1 letter]thenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgement-seat: And Gallio cared [illegible: 1 letter]or none of those things.

Not the converted Greeks, tho St. Austin thought they beat Sosthenes as an enemy to Paul (yet surely they had not so learned Christ) but the unbelieving or Gentile-Greeks, who cared for neither Paul, nor Iews, but favoured Gallio, who would have them driven away.

Some think him to have been the same with Crispus, Verse 8. others to have succeeded him in that Office: And some think that he was chief Ruler of another Synagogue (for in great Cities there might be more than one); and others, that there might be several called chief Rulers over one and the same Synagogue.

Either slighting the Iews and all their controversies, or prudently to decline intermedling with them.