La πρόνοια del praeses provinciae. Note di lessicologia giuridica: da Act. Ap. 24.2 alle fonti giurisprudenziali e documentarie

The paper aims to show that the use of the word πρόνοια in Acts 24:2 does not have the generic ethical or philosophical meaning of ‘providence’, as often found in the commentaries, but the juridical meaning of ‘farsighted provisions’. This interpretation is supported by a wide examination of contemporary literary, epigraphic and papyrological sources, where one can find a frequent and formalized use of this lexeme in reference to the administrative activity of emperors and governors of provinces.