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Description

For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website.

References

• Acts 24:24
• Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, xx.7.2.
• NT Character Podcast on Felix

Birth

• Born in Rome (?) 38 AD
• The youngest of three daughters of Herod Agrippa I (grandson of Herod the Great), who had killed the apostle James (Acts 12).
• She was apparently quite beautiful.

Marriage

• Married as a teenager.
• Accepted an invitation to leave her lawful husband to marry Felix. Felix engaged the services of a Jewish Cypriot magician (similar to the sorcerer of Acts 13?) to persuade her to leave her husband.
• Thus she ignored the clear teaching of Judaism on marriage.
• Felix and Drusilla had a son, Marcus Antonius Agrippa, as well as a daughter, Antonia Clementiana.

Death

• Died 24 August 79 in Pompeii, with the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
• Two famous people died in the eruption: Drusilla and Pliny the elder. (He was a personal friend of the emperor Vespasian)--who died trying to rescue a friend.

Lessons

• Cultivate character, not only the outward self.
• Remain faithful to your spouse.
• Judgment will eventually overtake us all.