Godbey's Commentary - Acts - Romans - Enter His Rest

getting filled up. Felix and Drusilla then and there passed the fatal borne and plunged into ruin
temporal and, we fear, eternal, the latter perishing with her only son in an eruption of Mt. Vesuvius,
buried alive in the burning lava, doubtless a prelude of hell’s unquenchable flame, and the former,
at the expiration of Paul’s two years imprisonment, accused of maladministration, summoned to
come to answer charges before the Emperor, narrowly escaping with his life, only to be cast away
into perpetual banishment, thus both of them signally verifying the awful warnings so timely given
by Paul, but sadly by them depreciated and rejected. Instead of bringing Lysias from Jerusalem, and
giving Paul a fair trial, as he had promised, he kept him there two whole years actuated only by the
sordid hope that some of Paul’s friends would pay a big lot of money for his release. Finally, at the
end of the two years his own awful troubles set in, culminating in his dethronement, arrest and
prosecution for his life under accumulated charges from maladministration. Hence in his awful
emergency, friends were scarce. Consequently he purchased the friendship of the Jews by leaving
Paul a prisoner in chains, though from the time of his trial, when first he became a prisoner, well
assured of his innocence and his own duty to release him.