but, moreover, and, etc.

to bind tie, fasten

1. to bind, fasten with chains, to throw into chains

2. metaph.

   1. Satan is said to bind a woman bent together by means of a demon, as his messenger, taking possession of the woman and preventing her from standing upright

   2. to bind, put under obligation, of the law, duty etc.

      1. to be bound to one, a wife, a husband

   3. to forbid, prohibit, declare to be illicit

succeeding, a successor

the space of two years

to will, have in mind, intend

1. to be resolved or determined, to purpose

2. to desire, to wish

3. to love

   1. to like to do a thing, be fond of doing

4. to take delight in, have pleasure

Jewish, belonging to the Jewish nation

Jewish as respects to birth, origin, religion

to leave behind

1. to depart from, leave

   1. to be left

2. to bid (one) to remain

3. to forsake, leave to one's self a person or thing by ceasing to care for it, to abandon, leave in the lurch

   1. to be abandoned, forsaken

4. to cause to be left over, to reserve, to leave remaining

5. like our "leave behind", it is used of one who on being called away cannot take another with him

   1. especially of the dying (to leave behind)

6. like our "leave", leave alone, disregard

   1. of those who sail past a place without stopping

to lay down, deposit, lay up

to lay by or up for one's self, for future use

to lay up favour for one's self with any one, to gain favour with (to do something for one which may win favour)

to take

1. to take with the hand, lay hold of, any person or thing in order to use it

   1. to take up a thing to be carried

   2. to take upon one's self

2. to take in order to carry away

   1. without the notion of violence, i,e to remove, take away

3. to take what is one's own, to take to one's self, to make one's own

   1. to claim, procure, for one's self

      1. to associate with one's self as companion, attendant

   2. of that which when taken is not let go, to seize, to lay hold of, apprehend

   3. to take by craft (our catch, used of hunters, fisherman, etc.), to circumvent one by fraud

   4. to take to one's self, lay hold upon, take possession of, i.e. to appropriate to one's self

   5. catch at, reach after, strive to obtain

   6. to take a thing due, to collect, gather (tribute)

4. to take

   1. to admit, receive

   2. to receive what is offered

   3. not to refuse or reject

   4. to receive a person, give him access to one's self,

      1. to regard any one's power, rank, external circumstances, and on that account to do some injustice or neglect something

5. to take, to choose, select

6. to take beginning, to prove anything, to make a trial of, to experience

to receive (what is given), to gain, get, obtain, to get back

this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than "the" counted

Paul or Paulus = "small or little"

1. Paul was the most famous of the apostles and wrote a good part of the NT, the 14 Pauline epistles

2. Paulus was a deputy or pro-consul of Cyprus and is said to be a prudent man, in the management of affairs, as a governor

to make full, to fill up, i.e. to fill to the full

1. to cause to abound, to furnish or supply liberally

   1. I abound, I am liberally supplied

to render full, i.e. to complete

1. to fill to the top: so that nothing shall be wanting to full measure, fill to the brim

2. to consummate: a number

   1. to make complete in every particular, to render perfect

   2. to carry through to the end, to accomplish, carry out, (some undertaking)

3. to carry into effect, bring to realisation, realise

   1. of matters of duty: to perform, execute

   2. of sayings, promises, prophecies, to bring to pass, ratify, accomplish

   3. to fulfil, i.e. to cause God's will (as made known in the law) to be obeyed as it should be, and God's promises (given through the prophets) to receive fulfilment

Porcius [Festus] = "swinish"

1. the successor of Felix as procurator of Judea

not only... but also

both... and

as... so

Felix = "happy"

1. a Roman procurator of Judea appointed by the emperor Claudius in A.D. 53. He ruled the province in a mean, cruel, and profligate manner. His period of office was full of troubles and seditions. Paul was brought before Felix at Caesarea. He was remanded in prison, and kept there two years in hopes of extorting money from him. Acts 24:26,27. At the end of that time Porcius Festus was appointed to supersede Felix, who, on his return to Rome, was accused by the Jews in Caesarea, and would have suffered the penalty due to his atrocities had not his brother Pallas prevailed with the emperor Nero to spare him. The wife of Felix was Drusilla, daughter of Herod Agrippa I., who was his third wife and whom he persuaded to leave her husband and marry him.

[Porcius] Festus = "festival"

1. the successor of Felix as procurator of Judea

grace

1. that which affords joy, pleasure, delight, sweetness, charm, loveliness: grace of speech

good will, loving-kindness, favour

1. of the merciful kindness by which God, exerting his holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, keeps, strengthens, increases them in Christian faith, knowledge, affection, and kindles them to the exercise of the Christian virtues

what is due to grace

1. the spiritual condition of one governed by the power of divine grace

2. the token or proof of grace, benefit

   1. a gift of grace

   2. benefit, bounty

thanks, (for benefits, services, favours), recompense, reward