Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 24:1

ANd after five days, Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain oratour named Tertullus who enformed the governour against Paul.

From the time that Paul was come to Cesarea, the malice and fury of the persecutors was very great, stick not at any travel and pains to do mischief with; and surely we ought to be as earnest in doing good, or their zeal will condem us.

A Lawyer to form the Indictment against Paul, or to aggravate his fault, and to desire Judgment upon him. Such Advocates usually were the chiefest Orators, as Demosthenes in Greece, and Cicero at Rome; and Tertullus seems to have been his Crafts-master, whom the Iews hired

to draw up an accusation against Paul.

Marginal references: Chap. 23.2.