Felix in Biblical History

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Who is Felix?
FE'LIX
(happy), the Roman governor of Judaea, a.d. 52-60, was a profligate and cruel man. Acts 23:26. He was married three times. His third wife was Drusilla, whom he persuaded to leave her husband and marry him, and they were residing at Caesarea when Paul was brought there in custody. He is specially known for the manner in which he treated the exhortations and warnings of Paul, Acts 24:26, who preached before him a most practical sermon, arraigning his crimes and urging upon him the duty of repentance in view of future judgment. The sermon made an impression, for "Felix trembled," but it was transient. He kept the apostle imprisoned for 2 years, and postponed the inquiry respecting his own salvation until a "convenient season," which, so far as we know, never came. Felix was superseded by Porcius Festus 2 years after this event, and tried at Rome before Nero for malversation of office, but escaped punishment through the intervention of Pallas, the freedman of Claudius and his successor, Nero.

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