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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 24:2 - 24:2
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Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness, etc. - In this fulsome flattery there was a semblance of truth: nothing more. Felix acted with a degree of vigor and success in suppressing lawless violence [Josephus, Antiquities, 20.8.4; confirmed by Tacitus, Annals, 12.54].
by thy providence - a phrase applied to the administration of the emperors.