Acts 24:2

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Seeing.

Felix, bad as he was, had certainly rendered some services to Judaea.

He had entirely subdued a very formidable banditti which had infested the country, and sent their captain, Eliezar, to Rome; had suppressed the sedition raised by the Egyptian impostor (Ac 21:38); and had quelled a very afflictive disturbance which took place between the Syrians and Jews of Carea.

But, though Tertullus might truly say, "by thee we enjoy great quietness," yet it is evident that he was guilty of the grossest flattery, as we have seen both from his own historians and Josephus, that he was both a bad man and a bad governor.

Acts 24:26; Acts 24:27; Ps 10:3; Ps 12:2; Ps 12:3; Prov 26:28; Prov 29:5; Jude 1:16