Bible Dictionary: Injustice: Festus

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Acts 24:27
But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.
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Paul Before Festus and Agrippa.
... Hence, they now endeavoured to persuade Festus to send for him to Jerusalem, that
he ... in their eyes, one of the most atrocious deeds of injustice and cruelty. ...
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Acts XXV
... a demand made upon the military power which was holding him in unjust confinement,
not to add to this injustice the crime ... (12) "Then Festus, having conferred ...
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'Before Governors and Kings'
... the injustice of keeping an innocent man in custody by throwing all the blame on
Paul himself for appealing to Csesar. But the person to blame was Festus, who ...
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Acts xxiv. 22, 23
... No evil, says Festus, "of such things as I:supposed: no accusation did they bring
against ... For such is the nature of injustice: to its own author first it does ...
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Paul's Epistles; his Collection for the Poor Saints at Jerusalem ...
... Festus has left behind him the reputation of an equitable judge; [137:3] and though ...
the Jews, he could not be induced by them to act with palpable injustice. ...
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Introduction
... It would be doing great injustice to the author of Acts, to suppose that he ... preaching
to the mob in Jerusalem, to the Sanhedrim, to Felix, to Festus, to Agrippa ...
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James the Brother of the Lord.
... interval between the procuratorship of Festus and that of Albinus, that is, in the
year 63. The Jewish historian adds that this act of injustice created great ...
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The Influence of the King James Version on English Literature
... So it comes about that when Dickens is describing the injustice of the Murdstones ...
of it is Goethe's, while Philip Bailey has called his account of it Festus. ...
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Christian Meekness
... partiality. Too much lenity in a magistrate is not meekness, but injustice. For ...
himself. I am not mad, most noble Festus' (Acts 26:25). Though ...
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Book ii Then for a While She Held Her Peace. ...
... heavy fate, how often is the sword of high injustice given where is already most
poisonous ... [17] Boethius's first wife was Elpis, daughter of Festus: his second ...
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Subtopics

Injustice

Injustice of the Least Kind, Condemned

Injustice: A Bad Example Leads To

Injustice: Ahab

Injustice: Brings a Curse

Injustice: Covetousness Leads To

Injustice: Festus

Injustice: Forbidden

Injustice: General Scriptures Concerning

Injustice: God: Abominates

Injustice: God: Approves not of