it seemed good to me also, having traced all things accurately from the first, to write in order to you, most excellent Theophilus,

Claudius Lysias to the most excellent procurator Felix, greeting.

we accept [it] most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.

But he said, I am not mad, most excellent Festus, but utter words of truth and sobriety.

and know his will, and approve of things which are excellent, being instructed by the law,

that you may prove the excellent, that you may be without fault and without offense in the day of Christ,

being made as much greater than the angels as he has inherited a more excellent name than they.

but now he has obtained a more excellent service, by as much also as he is the mediator of a better covenant, which is established on better promises.