(offerings).
22. Deferred (aveBarero). Adjourned the case. Only here in New Testament.
I will know the uttermost (Svayvécouar). Better, as Rev., I will determine. See on ch. xxiii. 15.
23. Liberty (dveow). From dvinu, to send up ; thence, to loosen, release. It is almost exactly expressed by our vulgarism, to let up. The noun here is more correctly rendered by Rev., indulgence. In all the other New Testament passages it is ren- dered rest, ease, or relief. See 2 Cor. ii. 133; vii. 5; viii. 13; 2 Thess. 1. 7.
To minister (d7rnperetv). See on officer, Matt. v. 25.
25. Righteousness, temperance, the judgment to come. Three topics which bore directly upon the character of Felix. Tacitus says of him that he “exercised the authority of a king with the spirit of a slave ;” and that, by reason of the powerful influence at his command, “he supposed he might perpetrate with impunity every kind of villany.” He had persuaded his wife Drusilla to forsake her husband and marry him. He had
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employed assassins to murder the high-priest Jonathan, and might well tremble at the preaching of the judgment to come. Temperance (éyxpateva) is, properly, self-control ; holding the passions in hand.
Trembled (gudoBos yevopevos). Lit., having become in fear. Reyv., better, was terrified.
For this time (70 viv éxov). Or, for the present. Very literally, as to what has itself now.
26. He hoped also (dua 8é ai édrrifwv). A comma should be placed after thee (ver. 25), and the participle erxritor, hoping, joined with answered: “ Felix answered, ‘ Go thy way, etc.,’ hoping withal that money would be given him.”
Communed (aire). See on talked, ch. xx. 11.
27. Porcius Festus came into Felix’s room (é\aBe d:a- Soyov 6 PAE Idpxvov Pijorov). Rev., better, Felia was suc- ceeded by Porcius Festus. The Greek idiom: is, Felix received Porcius Festus as a successor.
To shew the Jews a pleasure (ydpuitas xatatéodar Tos Iovdaiois). Lit., to lay up thanks for himself with the Jews. Reyv., correctly, to gain favor with the Jews.