Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 24:14

14 But thi[illegible: 1 letter] I con[illegible: 1 letter]ess unto thee, that a[illegible: 2 letters]er the way which they call heresie, so worship I the God o[illegible: 1 letter] my fathers▪ believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets.

He makes here a good confession, and is indeed a follower of Christ, who before Pontius Pilate is said to have witnessed a good confession, 1 Tim. 6.13.

This word is of a middle signification, being sometimes taken in a good sense, as Chap. 26.5. and thus the Greeks did use it sometimes when they spake of their Philosophers. Tho the Iews called the Doctrine of Christ so in the worst acception of the word; which Doctrine this blessed Apostle is not ashamed to own.

Yet he does withal truly assert, that he worshipped no other God than the God of his Fathers, but worshipped him whom Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob (whom they so much gloried in) had worshipped; and

that he had no other Religion than what was taught in the Law and the Prophets, from whom they themselves had received theirs.