Felix : Antonius (c.60 AD), Roman procurator of Judea, Samaria, Galilee, & Peraea. He jailed St. Paul for preaching Christian Righteousness & Last Judgement to him.
... Milton in the poetic field, ultimately to an old hymn of the fourth or fifth century A.D., which says, "O felix culpa, quae talem ac tantum meruit habere redemptorem!" ("O happy fault, which has deserved to have so great a redeemer!") and to St. Ambrose of the fourth century who cries out: "Felix ruina, quae reparatur in melius" ("Happy is the downfall which is restored for the better"). Lovejoy,... after all a felix culpa must not be permitted explicitly to intrude; that was to be reserved for the conclusion, where it could heighten the happy final consummation by making the earlier and unhappy episodes in the story appear as instrumental to that consummation, and indeed as its necessary conditions." Lovejoy is right in telling us that there is no explicit intrusion of the felix culpa in... triumphing, and fair Truth... 31 It is clear that almost the whole context within which the paradox of the felix culpa can burst upon us is already present quite early in Paradise Lost. So a reader with a good memory will hardly feel that Milton has gone back on his tracks. The felix culpa is the logical concept arising from those early passages if one realises intensely the drama of redemption ...
... to the High Court and was anxious to render help to Sri Aurobindo, but did not know how to do it. Among Aurobindo's contemporaries at Cambridge may be mentioned Ferrers, Robert Pentland Mahaffy, Felix Xavier De Souza, K. G. Deshpande and Sir Harisingh Gaur. K.G. Deshpande met Sri Aurobindo again in Baroda. Being brought up in a foreign country without a background Page 23 of ...
... and calm his fears. I knew Acheson well. He had often come to our house in Washington and greatly appreciated Amelie's French cooking. Every morning, he could be seen walking to the office with Felix Frankfurter. With their two bowler hats, the two friends were the incarnation of Law and the Constitution. They were both good company, quizzical and full of warmth. Acheson could be urbane and even... the Socialist experiment — did not wholly explain the attitude of the British. I had in fact sensed a deeper and less articulate worry on their part, of which I had confirmation in a letter that Felix Gaillard wrote me from Strasbourg while the Council of Europe was in session: Members of the Labour Party are opposed to the Page 97 Schuman Plan because they are defeatist about ...
... troublesome but insignificant sect, get their learned men to argue it or their jesters to ridicule it out of existence, or even accuse its apostles before the tribunal of alien rulers, Pontius Pilate, a Felix or a Festus, as "pestilent fellows and movers of sedition throughout the nation". But in spite of all and largely because of all the persecution, denunciation and disparagement the idea gathers strength ...
... and about "rogues and scoundrels" fathering saints in themselves remind me of Oscar Wilde's epigram: "Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future." There is also the great Christian theme of "Felix Culpa" - "the Happy Blunder", "the Fortunate Fall" of Adam without which there would have been no need for a Saviour to come on earth, for the "Son of God" to visit man's world in order to atone for ...
... The Pauline theology differs in a number of points from what he makes Paul say. An instance, related to Acts 24:1-21, may be cited from Fitzmyer: 38 "Paul tries to assure [the Roman Governor] Felix that even if he is a member of the sect of the Nazoreans [= followers of Jesus of Nazareth], this is still in line with all that the Pharisees [= members of Paul's original sect] hold most dear.... ...
... Crucifixion of Jesus. — Resurrection and ascension. — Paul's conversion. AD45-47 — Paul's first mission. AD58-60 — Paul imprisoned by Felix, procurator of Judea. AD61-64 — Persecution of Christians by Nero. — Death of Peter and Paul in Rome. AD60-100 — The four Gospels. ...
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