Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 25:23

23 And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and were entred into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus commandment Paul was brought forth.

The State, Attire, and Retinue used in this Solemnity is much undervalued by the term the Holy Ghost here gives it ([non-Latin text not transcribed]); intimating, that all worldly glory is but in opinion and appearance meerly; and that as a shew it passeth away.

Here is a great difference indeed between these great persons thus adorned and accompanied on the one side, and Paul, the Prisoner ([non-Latin text not transcribed], the chained, as he is called, Chap. 23.18.) on the other side: Yet Holy Paul, with great Reason▪ prefers his Condition before theirs. He does not desire to partake with them in their ease and splendor, but with Christ in his disgrace and sufferings, Phil. 3.10.