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OET (OET-LV) And after five days, Ananias the chief_priest came_down with some elders, and Tertullos a_certain an_attorney, who reported to_the governor against the Paulos.
OET (OET-RV) Five days later, Ananias the chief priest arrived along with some elders and an attorney named Tertullos, to bring the charges against Paul before Governor Felix.
Note 1 topic: writing-participants
ῥήτορος Τερτύλλου τινός
/an/_attorney Tertullus /a/_certain
Luke is using the phrase a certain orator to introduce Tertullus as a new participant in the story. If your language has its own way of introducing new participants, you could use it here in your translation.
Note 2 topic: translate-unknown
ῥήτορος
/an/_attorney
In this context, the term orator means a person who spoke well and who was well acquainted with Roman law. Either an accuser or a defendant might employ such a person to argue a case for them in court. In your translation, you could use a term for someone in a comparable role in your culture. Alternate translation: [a courtroom lawyer]
Note 3 topic: translate-names
Τερτύλλου τινός
Tertullus /a/_certain
The word Tertullus is the name of a man.
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
κατέβη
came_down
Luke says that these men came down to Caesarea because that was the customary way of speaking about traveling from Jerusalem, since that city is up on a mountain. Use a natural way of referring to traveling downward in your language.
24:1-27 Tertullus presented a legal case against Paul in a Roman court on behalf of the high priest (24:1-9). Then Paul cheerfully made his defense and defended his faith (24:10-21), and the governor adjourned the hearing without a decision and left Paul in prison for two years (24:22-27).
OET (OET-LV) And after five days, Ananias the chief_priest came_down with some elders, and Tertullos a_certain an_attorney, who reported to_the governor against the Paulos.
OET (OET-RV) Five days later, Ananias the chief priest arrived along with some elders and an attorney named Tertullos, to bring the charges against Paul before Governor Felix.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.