Acts 24:4. Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee. It were as though the advocate saw signs of impatience in the unrighteous judge before him. Felix, who was with all his faults an able man, could not avoid discerning the shameless nature of the lying words of the unprincipled plausible orator.

I pray thee that thou wouldest hear me of thy clemency. One falsehood more did Tertullus think proper to introduce into his harangue. The ‘clemency' of Felix, to which as a well-known characteristic feature of the governor's conduct he alluded, was perhaps the last point he ought to have dwelt on in that cruel selfish life.

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