Provide mounts for Paul to take him safely to Governor Felix.”
Malice that cannot gain its end by tumult or law will turn to the knife. Forty men bound themselves by oath to murder Paul, their hearts filled with hatred because he preached to Gentiles. Satan had stirred them in the night; by daylight they were ready to kill. But Christ appeared to Paul in darkness to shield him, and God was awake before His enemies rose.
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Commenting on Acts 23:12-35
Claudius Lysias is the chief captain's name, a Greek freedman who took his Roman name from the Emperor; by this letter to Felix he identifies himself and sends His official word.
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Felix was a freedman of Antonia, the emperor's mother, risen high in Claudius's favor and given rule over Judea from Caesarea. Tacitus saw plain truth: he wielded kingly authority with a slave's baseness.
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