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ANTONIUS FELIX

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 239 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTONIUS See also:FELIX  , See also:Roman See also:procurator of See also:Judaea (A.D . 52-60), in See also:succession to Ventidius Cumanus . He was a freedman either of the See also:emperor See also:Claudius—according to which theory See also:Josephus (Antiq. xx . 7) calls him Claudius See also:Felix—or more probably of the empress Antonia . On entering his See also:province he induced Drusilla, wife of Azizus of Horns (Emesa), to leave her See also:husband and live with him as his wife . His See also:cruelty and licentiousness, coupled with his accessibility to bribes, led to a See also:great increase of See also:crime in Judaea . To put down the Zealots he favoured an even more violent See also:sect, the Sicarii (" See also:Dagger-men "), by whose aid he contrived the See also:murder of the high-See also:priest See also:Jonathan . The See also:period of his See also:rule was marked by See also:internal feuds and disturbances, which he put down with severity . The apostle See also:Paul, after being apprehended in See also:Jerusalem, was sent to be judged before Felix at Caesarea, and kept in custody for two years (Acts See also:xxiv.) . On returning to See also:Rome, Felix was accused of having taken See also:advantage of a dispute between the See also:Jews and Syrians of Caesarea to slay and See also:plunder the inhabitants, but through the intercession of his See also:brother, the freedman See also:Pallas, who had great See also:influence with the emperor See also:Nero, he escaped unpunished . See See also:Tacitus, See also:Annals, xx . 54, Hist. v .

9; Suetonius, Claudius, 28; E . See also:

Schurer, See also:History of the Jewish See also:People (1890-1891); See also:article in See also:Hastings' Dict. of the See also:Bible (A . See also:Robertson) ; commentaries on the Acts of the Apostles; See also:Sir W . M . See also:Ramsay, St Paul the Traveller; Carl v . See also:Weizsacker, Apostolic See also:Age (Eng. trans., 1894) ; See also:art . JEws .

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