Acts 18:13

This fellow. Gr. houtos, “this,” or “this one,” a demonstrative pronoun well expressing the contempt that they wished to convey to the mind of Gallio. The law. It seems obvious that in this appeal to the proconsul the Jews meant, not the law of Moses, but the law of Rome. Their line of thought would be that though, as a matter of policy, Jews had been banished from Rome, Judaism was still a religio licita, tolerated and recognized by the Roman state. Their charge would therefore not have been about some point of the Jewish religion, but that Paul was preaching a new religion, not recognized (cf. on ch. 17:7).