Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 24:5

5 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ring-leader of the sect of the Nazarens:

A Pest, or Plague, the Abstract being put for the Concrete, as implying, that no word he could use could properly signify the mischievousness of that man,

whom he falsly charges with Sedition (not that the Iews would have disliked him for that, had it been true; but) to make St. Paul the more odious, and in danger of his Life.

Or Heresie, which in common use was then taken more favourably for any Doctrine.

Of the Christian[illegible: 1 letter]; for they who out of Iudea were called Christians, in Iudea were called Nazarens. The Iews did call our Saviour and his followers thus, it being accounted an ignominious term; and they who were born at Nazareth disgraced by it, as appears by Nathaneel's question, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Joh. 1.46. Yet this name is most glorious, as imposed upon our Saviour by God himself, Matth. 2. ult.