He hoped also — An evil hope: so when he heard his eye was not single. No marvel then that he profited nothing by all St. Paul's discourses: that money would be given — By the Christians for the liberty of so able a minister. And waiting for this, unhappy Felix fell short of the treasure of the Gospel.
ACTS 24:26 Pau,lou After Pau,lou the later manuscripts (H L P _al,_ followed by the Textus Receptus), unwilling to leave anything to the reader’s imagination, add o[pwj lu,sh| auvto,n (“that he shou...
Verse Acts 24:26. _HE HOPED ALSO THAT MONEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN HIM_] Bp. Pearce asks, "How could St. Luke know this?" To which I answer: From the report of St. Paul, with whom Felix had frequent...
HE HOPED ALSO - He thought that by giving him access to his friends, and by often meeting him himself, and showing kindness, Paul might be induced to attempt to purchase his freedom with a bribe. THAT...
CHAPTER 23 _ 1. Paul before the Sanhedrin (Acts 23:1)._ 2. The vision of the Lord (Acts 23:11). 3. The Conspiracy against Paul (Acts 23:12). 4. Paul taken to Caesarea ...
PAUL AND FELIX. Drusilla was the third daughter of Agrippa (Acts 12:1); and Felix had taken her from her husband Azizus of Emesa. She was his third wife, and all three were queens. The marriage was st...
But Felix, who had a very good knowledge of the facts about The Way, put them off, saying, "When Lysias the commander comes down, I will go into your case." He instructed the centurion that Paul was t...
A FLATTERING SPEECH AND A FALSE CHARGE (Acts 24:1-9)...
SHOULD. would. HIM. Omit. OF. by. Greek. _hupo_, as in Acts 24:21. t HAT... HIM. The texts omit. WHEREFORE. Add "also". THE OFTENER. Greek. _puknoteron._ Comp of _puknos,_ the neut. being used ad...
_He hoped also_(_Rev. Ver._withal) _that money should have been_(_R. V._would be) _given him of Paul_ He had heard the Apostle speak of the contributions which he had gathered for the Jews in Jerusale...
ADJOURNMENT OF THE CAUSE. FELIX’S TREATMENT OF ST PAUL...
ὅπως λύσῃ αὐτόν omitted with אABCE. Not represented in _Vulg_. 26. ἍΜΑ ΚΑῚ ἘΛΠΊΖΩΝ Κ.Τ.Λ., at _the same time also hoping that money would be given him by Paul_. He had heard the Apostle speak of the...
_PAUL WAS KEPT UNDER GUARD ACTS 24:24-27:_ Felix and his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, went to the place where Paul was kept to hear him. Paul spoke to them concerning faith in Christ. Felix was frig...
ΆΜΑ (G260) в то же время, ΚΑΊ (G2532) также, ΈΛΠΊΖΩΝ _praes. act. part._ (причины) от ΕΛΠΊΖΩ (G1679) надеяться. _Praes._ указывает на длительную надежду, ΧΡΉΜΑΤΑ (G5536) _pl._ деньги. Хотя взятки б...
HE HOPED ALSO THAT MONEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN HIM— This stroke finishes the character of Felix, and shews still more plainly how far off she was from reallyreceiving the gospel. Felix might indulge...
c. Paul's two years imprisonment in Caesarea. Acts 24:23-27. Acts 24:27 And he gave order to the centurion that he should be kept in charge, and should have indulgence; and not to forbid any of his...
26, 27. True to the character which Tacitus attributes to Felix, Luke adds that (26) "_Hoping also that money would be given to him by Paul, so that he would release him, he therefore sent for him the...
He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him. He hoped also that money should have been given him...
17 To a man like Felix the accusation that Paul belonged to the sect of the Nazarenes would have little in it to incriminate him. And Paul, with marvelous wisdom, answers all that might be said agains...
ST. PAUL BEFORE FELIX 1-27. St Paul and Felix. 1. Tertullus] in spite of his Roman name may have been a Greek or even a Jew (cp.'our Law,' AV Acts 24:6)....
As Agrippa was expert in all matters of the Jewish law, Festus hoped that he would help him to compose a letter to the Emperor, which would make it clear what the charges against Paul really were....
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 24 THE *JEWISH LEADERS ACCUSE PAUL, 24:1-9 V1 Five days later, Ananias the *high priest went to Caesarea. Some leaders and Tertullus, a lawyer,...
HE HOPED ALSO THAT MONEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN HIM OF PAUL. — The Greek gives “hoping also,” as continuing the previous verse, and so places the fact in more immediate connection with the procurator’...
ἅμα δὲ καὶ ἐλπ.: connected by some with ἀπεκ. (_cf._ Acts 23:25), so Weiss, Wendt, Hackett; others punctuate as W.H [386], R.V., and render it as a finite verb. ὅτι : on the construction with ἐλπίζειν...
A TREMBLING BUT VENAL JUDGE Acts 24:17 The case had broken down. Paul's statement of faith and the absence of confirmatory evidence directly contradicted the only charge against him. Felix dared not...
Tertullus, who appeared here, was a Roman barrister, it being necessary for the Jews to employ such in presenting their cases before a Roman tribunal. The charges he made were palpably false. His desc...
Paul Before Felix and Drusilla Luke told Theophilus that Felix had a fairly good knowledge of "the Way," or Christianity. After all, Philip and his four daughters lived in Caesarea and Cornelius had b...
PAUL PREACHES TO FELIX AND DRUSILLA 24-27. During Paul's trial, he managed to get in so much straight gospel truth as to at least arouse the governor's curiosity _“concerning the faith which is towar...
And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttmost of your matter. (23) An...
The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
_RESISTING THE SPIRIT_ ‘Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.’ Acts 24:25 Felix made two great mistakes. He did not know wha...
− 26._Hoping that money. _Though Felix had thoroughly tried Paul’s integrity, so that he was ashamed to take money of the Jews for condemning him; yet forasmuch as he was a covetous man, and a man giv...
Paul appears before the governors in succession the Sanhedrim, Felix, Festus, Agrippa, and afterwards Caesar. And here, when occasion offers, we have striking appeals to conscience; when his defence i...
HE HOPED ALSO THAT MONEY WOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN HIM OF PAUL,.... For he observed from his own defence, that he came up to Jerusalem to bring alms and offerings; and he perceived by Tertullus's indictme...
He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him. Ver. 26. _He hoped also, &c._] _Fuit Felix inexpleb...
_He hoped also_ A vain and evil hope! So, when he heard, his eye was not single; no marvel then that he profited nothing by all Paul's discourses; _that money_ would be _given him_ by _Paul_ Or by the...
MONEY-GIVEN; as a bribe, to induce him to release Paul. Worldly minded and covetous men may seek to make even the preaching of the gospel a means of adding to their unrighteous gain. Such place themse...
PAUL RETAINED A PRISONER....
HE HOPED ALSO THAT MONEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN HIM OF PAUL, THAT HE MIGHT LOOSE HIM; WHEREFORE HE SENT FOR HIM THE OFTENER, AND COMMUNED WITH HIM....
The Jews did not delay long just taking enough time (5 days) to make plans by which to influence Felix against Paul. The high priest and elders of the people came down, bringing with them an orator na...
MEANWHILE HE ALSO HOPED THAT MONEY WOULD BE GIVEN HIM BY PAUL THAT HE MIGHT RELEASE HIM. THEREFORE HE SENT FOR HIM OFTEN AND CONVERSED WITH HIM. 1. Felix also had another motive for his decision to w...
"At the same time too, he was hoping that money would be given him by Paul; therefore he also used to send for him quite often and converse with him". person cannot repent with such. divided heart. Ho...
22-27 The apostle reasoned concerning the nature and obligations of righteousness, temperance, and of a judgment to come; thus showing the oppressive judge and his profligate mistress, their need of...
This speaks the charge to be true that the historians give of Felix concerning his covetousness; for taking hold of that part of Paul's accusation, ACTS 24:5, that he was the ringleader of the sect of...
26, 27. True to the character which Tacitus attributes to Felix, Luke adds that (26) "_ Hoping also that money would be given to him by Paul, so that he would release him, he therefore sent for him th...
Tertullian De Fuga in Persecutione give them aid of this kind when they were persecuted? Paul indeed, when Felix the governor hoped that he should receive money for him from the disciples,[54]...
Acts 24:26 also G260 G1161 G2532 hoped G1679 (G5723) that G3754 money G5536 given G1325 ...
‘He hoped withal that money would be given to him by Paul, which was why also he sent for him the more often, and communed with him.' Felix, however, did follow it up. He had no intention of releasing...
Acts 24:26. HE HOPED ALSO THAT MONEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN HIM OF PAUL, THAT HE MIGHT LOOSE HIM: WHEREFORE HE SENT FOR HIM THE OFTENER, AND COMMUNED WITH HIM. The greed and rapacity of so many of the...
HE HOPED WITHAL (αμα κα ελπιζων). "At the same time also hoping." Paul had mentioned the "alms" (Acts 24:17) and that excited the avarice of Felix for "money" (χρηματα). Roman law demanded exile and...
Acts 24:24 The Character of Felix. Felix was not a man altogether ignorant of the religion which Paul preached; he is, on the other hand, spoken of as one who had a more perfect knowledge of that way...
CONTENTS: Paul accused before Felix, and his defense. CHARACTERS: Ananias, elders, Tertullus, Felix, Paul, Lysias, Drusilla, Festus. CONCLUSION: Every false cause can find men of sharp wits to plead...
Acts 24:1. _After five days, Ananias descended with the elders;_ to intimidate the governor, and ensure the destruction of Paul, as they had done with Pilate in regard of the Saviour. They lost no tim...
AFTER SOME DAYS. Drusilla was the daughter of that Herod who died at Caesarea (Acts 12:23), sister of Bernice (Acts 25:23). She had been married at age fourteen to Azizus, king of Emeza; and because o...
_He hoped also that money should have been given him._ FELIX REDIVIVUS It is a wonderful characteristic of the Bible that all its characters are still with us. The men of the Bible were types. I. Fe...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 24:1 The Witness in Caesarea. Paul was imprisoned in Caesarea for more than two years. He received formal hearings from the governors Felix and Festus and the Jewish king Agrippa II....
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 24:26 MONEY.... SENT FOR HIM OFTEN. Roman law prohibited officials from taking bribes, but bribe-taking was common. ⇐...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 24:24. WHEN FELIX CAME, or _Felix having come,_ not to Cæsarea, after a temporary absence, but into the place of audience (Hackett), rather than into the prison (Holtzmann). DR...
EXPOSITION ACTS 24:1 _The high priest Ananias came down _for _Ananias the high priest descended, _A.V.; _certain elders _for _the elders, _A.V. and T.R.; _an orator, one Tertullus _for _a certain ora...
Shall we turn now to chapter twenty-four in the book of Acts. Paul had been seen in the temple worshipping God by some of the Jews that were from Asia who were familiar with Paul's ministry among the...
1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Samuel 12:3; 1 Samuel 8:3; 1 Timothy 6:10;...
He hoped also [α μ α δ ε κ α ι ε λ π ι ζ ω ν]. A comma should be placed after thee (ver. 25), and the participle ejlpizwn, hoping, joined with answered : "Felix answered, 'Go thy way, etc., ' hoping w...
Observe here, What small success the apostle's preaching had, it found and left Felix. bad man; covetousness and bribery were his sins before, and they are so still; HE HOPED THAT MONEY SHOULD BE GIVE...