Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 23:6

6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadduces, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. of the hope and resurcection of the dead I am called in question.

In his former Profe[illegible: 1 letter]sion, Opinion, and Conversation; and now also in the points that were controverted betwixt them: And St. Paul, with his Dove-like Innocency, does in this but make use of the Serpentine subtilty, to preserve himself, and to gain credit unto the Truths of the Gospel.

The son of Pharisees in the Plural; either for several Descents his Ancestors had been of that Sect; or that both his Father and his Mother were of it.

Or for the hope of the Resurrection, an Hendyadis: altho he did not agree with the Pharisees in all their Opinions, yet in this he did: and the Resurrection was the common Subject he preached upon: and the Gospel does give us the best proof and evidence of it; insomuch that Paul was taxed for preaching Jesus and the Resurrection, Chap. 17.18. And unless there be a Resurrection, his preaching was vain, and his faith vain, 1 Cor. 15.13, 14.

Marginal references: Chap. 24.15, 22. and 26.5. Phil. 3.5.; Chap. 24.21.