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Acts 24:26

The Pulpit Commentary on Acts 24:26

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Withal for also, A.V.; would be for should have been, A.V.; that he might loose him is omitted in the R.T. and R.V.; wherefore also for wherefore, A.V. Sent for him the oftener. The mixture of conviction with covetousness in the mind of Felix as the motive for seeing Paul is observable.

As in other cases of double-mindedness, the convictions were doubtless stifled by the corrupt avarice, and so came to nothing.

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