for it doth seem to me irrational, sending a prisoner, not also to signify the charges against him.'
Whoso is answering a matter before he heareth, Folly it is to him and shame.
`Doth our law judge the man, if it may not hear from him first, and know what he doth?'
concerning whom I have no certain thing to write to `my' lord, wherefore I brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, that the examination having been made, I may have something to write;
And Agrippa said unto Paul, `It is permitted to thee to speak for thyself;' then Paul having stretched forth the hand, was making a defence: