Rev. Newport J. D.White, M.A., B.D., Librarian of Archbishop Marsh's Library, and Assistant Lecturer in Divinity and Hebrew in the University of Dublin.
Rev. Owen C. Whitehouse, M.A., Principal and Professor of Biblical Exegesis and Theology, Clieshunt College, Herts.
Rev. A. LuKYN W1LLIAM.S, M.A., Vicar of Guildeu Morden, late TjTwhitt and Crosse Scholar of the University of Cambridge.
Major-General Sir Charles William Wilson, R.E., K.C.B., K.C.M.G., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S.
Rev. Francis Henry Woods, M.A., B.D., Vicar of Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks, and late Fellow and Tlieological Lecturer of St. John's Col- lege, Oxford.
Rev. John Wortabet, M.A., M.D., Ue/ront, Syria.
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DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE
FEIGN (Lat. fingSre, to mould, invent ; Old Fr. feindre, Ptcp. feignant).- — 1. To devise, invent : Neh 6' 'There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart ' (nt;, only here and 1 K 12'' EV ' devise ') j 2 H 2' ' And through covetouaness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you ' (irXaaroh \iyoii, only here in NT ; Salmond ' made up or c-raftly constructed speeches '). Cf. Lk 24" Tind. ' their wordes seemed vnto them fayned thinges ' ; and Knox, Bist. p. 177, ' Which reports are all (God knoweth) most vain, fained, and untrue.' 2. To put on an appearance, pretend : 1 K 14' 'she shall feign herself to be another ivoman' (rnjjnp) ; so 14'; IS 21" 'he changed his be- liaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands ' (S'?nn:) ; 2 S 14^ ' feign thyself to be a mourner' (Kj-'psNnri) ; Ps 17* 'give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips ' (npip 'Xitiv, lit. 'lips of guUe'). Cf. Knox, Hist. 101, ' yet was every head so fully answered, and especially one. . . . To wit. That Paul at the com- mandment of James, and of the Elders of Jeru- salem, passed to the Temple, and fained himself to pay his vow with others ' ; and Elyot, TAe Govemour, ii. 432, ' Unto euery man disclose nat thy harte, leest perauenture he wyl gyue to the a fained thanke, and after reporte rebukefully of the"; Barlowe, Dialogue, ed. 1897, p. 48, 'Then beganne he [Luther] stoutly to fortety his fayned fayth voyde of good workes' ; Tindale, ]Vorks, i. 94, ' tor where right faith is, there bringeth she forth good works ; if there follow not good works, it IS (no doubt) but a dream and an opinion or feigned faith ' ; also Tind. Expositions, 163, ' And for them that would not receive such pardons feigned they purgatory, and for them tiiat re- ceived them feigned they pardon, turning binding and loosing, with preaching God's word, unto buy- ing and selling sin for money.'
Feignedly = with pretence, deceitfully: Jer 3" ' Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but fcignedly' (ifl:;'? 'in falsehood,* as AVm) : 2 Es s^ 'Think not upon those that nave walked feignedly before thee' {false con- vcrsati sunt). So Tindale, Works, i. 177, ' the cliildren of the devil, in time of adversity, fly from Christ, whom they followed feignedly.'
J. Hastings.
FELIX, Antonius, procurator of Juda-a (Ac 2.T-*'-24") at the time of St. Paul's last visit to Jerusalem and arrest there. The military tribune Claudius Lyslas sends Paul under escort to Cffsarea, wit)i a letter to Eelix reciting, in a light favour-
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able to his own conduct, the circumstances of the arrest. Arrived at Csesarea, the apostle, after a purely formal interview, is remanded by Felix for trial, and detained in the government house (prai- torium), originally a palace of Herod the Great, untU the arrival of his accusers. On the fifth day the proceedings begin. The case against the prisoner IS opened by an advocate (see 'Tertullus). Evi- dence is given by the Jews, and, upon a sign from the procurator, Paul makes a speech in defence. Felix, perhaps interested in the matter by his Jewish wife (Ac 24^), then adjourns the trial till the arrival of Lysias, and Paul is again remanded as a prisoner, but under lenient conditions. We hear nothing of an}' resumption of the trial. But after some days Felix, accompanied by Drnsilla (and, according to some authorities for the Western text, at ner special request), sends for Paul and gives him audience concerning the belief ' in Christ ' (or 'Jesus as Christ'). The apostle (taking, as usual, common ground with his hearer) addresses him upon broad moral truths, and the judgment (looked for by heathens as well as Jews) after death. Felix becomes alarmed, and sends him away till a future occasion. He sends for him (' secretly,' Gig.) ' somewhat often ' for further con- versation, excited mainly by the hope of a bribe (cf. Ramsay, St. Paul the Trav. p. 31011'.). Two years after St. Paul's arrest Felix is recalled, and, to ingratiate himself with the Jews (or, according to some Western sources, for the sake of Drusilla), leaves Paul a prisoner.
The dubious light in which the character of Felix appears in the NT narrative is bright com- pared with that shed upon it by the other histories of the time. Felix was the (apparently) younger brother of Pallas, the well-known and all-powerful favourite of Claudius. That An- tonius, not Claudius, was the nomen borne by Felix (Tac. Hist. v. 9 ; the nomen Claudius for Felix is based on a probably corrupt reading in Suidas, t.v.) suggests that Pelix was a freedman of Antonia, mother of Claudius (so also probably Pallas; see Jos. Ant. XVllI. vi. 6 ; cf. Schurcr, HJP I. ii. 175). The brothers claimed descent, as Tacitus ironically mentions, from ancient kings of Arcadia {Ann. xii. 53).