Acts - 24:3



3 we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.

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Explanation and meaning of Acts 24:3.

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We accept it always, and in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness.
We accept it always and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thanksgiving.
we receive it always and everywhere, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.
always, also, and everywhere we receive it, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness;
in every instance and in every place we accept them with profound gratitude.
In all things and in all places we are conscious of our great debt to you, most noble Felix.
we acknowledge this, always and everywhere, with acts of thanksgiving for everything.
"We owe it to your Excellency," he said, "that we are enjoying profound peace, and we owe it to your foresight that this nation is constantly securing reforms – advantages which we very gratefully accept at all times and places.

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Historical Commentaries

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We accept it always - We admit that it is owing to your vigilance, and we accept your interposition to promote peace with gratitude.
Always, and in all places - Not merely in your presence, but we always acknowledge that it is owing to your vigilance that the land is secure. "What we now do in your presence, we do also in your absence; we do not commend you merely when you are present" (Wetstein).
Most noble Felix - This was the title of office.
With all thankfulness - In this there was probably sincerity, for there was no doubt that the peace of Judea was owing to Felix. But at the same time that he was an energetic and vigilant governor, it was also true that he was proud, avaricious, and cruel. Josephus charges him with injustice and cruelty in the case of Jonathan, the high priest (Antiq., book 20, chapter 8, section 5), and Tacitus (History, book 5, chapter 9) and Suetonius (Life of Claudius, chapter 28) concur in the charge.

We accept it always, and in all places - We have at all times a grateful sense of thy beneficent administration, and we talk of it in all places, not only before thy face, but behind thy back.

We accept it always, and in all places,.... The sense is, that the Jews observed with pleasure the provident care the governor took of their nation, and at all times spoke well of him; and wherever they came commended his conduct, and owned the favours they received from him, and the blessings they enjoyed under his government: and then giving him his title of honour,
most noble Felix; Tertullus adds, that this the Jews did
with all thankfulness; as sensible of the obligations they were under to him; but this was all a farce, mere artifice, and wretched flattery.

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