and that I may not be further tedious to thee, I pray thee to hear us concisely in thy gentleness;
always, also, and everywhere we receive it, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness;
for having found this man a pestilence, and moving a dissension to all the Jews through the world -- a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes --
that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few `words' --
let your forbearance be known to all men; the Lord `is' near;
And what shall I yet say? for the time will fail me recounting about Gideon, Barak also, and Samson, and Jephthah, David also, and Samuel, and the prophets,