25And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
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And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-27)We have here the result of Paul’s trial before Felix, and what was the consequence of it. I. Felix adjourned the cause, and took further time to consider of it (Acts 24:22): He had a more perfect knowledge of that way which the Jews called heresy than the high priest and the elders thought he had. He understood something of the Christian religion; for, living at Caesarea, where Cornelius, a Roman…
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