"Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects): The New Testament, with a Sketch of the Subsequent History of the Jews.Ross, Mary, Lady
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"Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects): The New Testament, with a Sketch of the Subsequent History of the Jews.
Ross, Mary, Lady
Bible stories, English -- New Testament; Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Jews -- History
St. Luke next tells us, "And after certain days, when Felix came with
his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him
concerning the faith in Christ." It has already been said that
Drusilla was one of the daughters of Herod Agrippa, who died miserably
at Cæsarea, as a punishment for allowing himself to be treated as a
god. Drusilla had been married to another man, but Felix had persuaded
her to leave her husband, and become his wife. This was a great sin in
both Felix and Drusilla. After the trial of St. Paul, the governor
appears to have left Cæsarea for a while; and when he came back,
bringing Drusilla with him, they both wished to hear more of the
doctrines of Christianity, and therefore they sent for St. Paul, that
he might talk to them "concerning the faith in Christ." St. Paul was
always ready to speak the truth boldly in the service of his heavenly
Master; and knowing that Felix was an unjust and unrighteous ruler,
and a man who at all times thought only of pleasing and indulging
himself, without caring what injury or suffering he inflicted upon
others, he took this opportunity of showing the sinfulness of such
conduct, and that those who persisted in it would be punished
hereafter, when Jesus Christ should come to judge the world. "And as
he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix
trembled"; for his conscience told him, that he was guilty of the very
sins for which the Apostle declared that the wrath of God would fall
upon the impenitent. Well would it have been for him, if the fear
which made him tremble, had made him at once anxiously inquire in true
penitence, What must I do to be saved? But, unhappily, he took another
course, too often followed amongst ourselves: he did not _like to
hear_ such things, and so he tried to put them away, and answered, "Go
thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call
for thee."
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