But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' position: and Felix, willing to show the Jews a favor, left Paul bound.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
so that he not only coveted money, but also glory. How, O wretch, can you look for money from a man who preaches the contrary? But that he did not get it, is evident from his leaving him bound; he would have loosed him, had he received it. Of temperance, it says, he reasoned; but the other was hankering to receive money from him who discoursed these things! And to ask indeed he did not dare: for such is wickedness: but he hoped it. And when two years were completed, etc.
