After some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.
Felix knew the Way better than those Jews gave him credit for, having lived among Christians like Cornelius; he saw they were honest men, not seditious. He put off judgment, wanting to hear from Lysias himself, an impartial witness. God often shields His people through the very indifference of their enemies, if those enemies have but some glimmer of the truth.
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Commenting on Acts 24:22-27
Paul reasoned about righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, not merely the imputed righteousness of Christ, but the active justice between man and man that any conscience must know. Felix, steeped in cruelty and injustice, needed this word; Paul showed how without a perfect righteousness we cannot stand before God's holiness or enter heaven.
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Drusilla had forsaken her husband Azizus to marry Felix in defiance of her nation's law; she lived in adultery. This is why Paul dwelt so pointedly on temperance and chastity in his discourse, he struck at the very sin festering in that room. Felix may have summoned him partly to learn more, partly to show his power over the prisoner.
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