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Righteousness, temperance, the judgment to come
Three topics which bore directly upon the character of Felix. Tacitus says of him that he “exercised the authority of a king with the spirit of a slave;” and that, by reason of the powerful influence at his command, “he supposed he might perpetrate with impunity every kind of villany.” He had persuaded his wife Drusilla to forsake her husband and marry him. He had employed assassins to murder the high-priest Jonathan, and might well tremble at the preaching of the judgment to come. Temperance (ἐγκράτεια) is, properly, self-control; holding the passions in hand.
Trembled (ἔμφοβος γενόμενος)
Lit., having become in fear. Rev., better, was terrified.
For this time (τὸ νῦν ἔχον)
Or, for the present. Very literally, as to what has itself now.