He hoped also that money should have been given him by Paul, that he might release him: therefore he sent for him often, and conferred with him.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
And not only so, but even after conversing with him— for it was towards the end of his government— he left him bound, willing to show the Jews a pleasure
Give them aid of this kind when they were persecuted? Paul indeed, when Felix the governor hoped that he should receive money for him from the disciples,