xx.  8,  11).  His  character  contrasts  favorably
with  that  of  Felix  (War  ii.  14,  1).  He  rein-
vestigated  Paul's  case,  and  was  satisfied  of
his  innocence,  but  committed  one  mistake,  in
attempting  to  please  the  Jews,  by  asking  the
apostle  if  he  would  consent  to  be  tried  at
Jerusalem.  It  was  against  this  injudicious
proposal  that  Paul  appealed  to  Csesar  (Acts
xxv.  1-xxvi.  32).  Festus  died  at  his  post,
and  was  succeeded,  about  A.  D.  62,  by  Albinus,
wrho  is  not  mentioned  in  the  Scripture  nar
rative  (Antiq.  xx.  9,  1).
Fe'ver.
A  disease,  or  rather  a  genus  of  diseases,  at
tended  by  dryness  and  heat  of  the  body,  with
consequent  thirst,  a  high  pulse,  and  other
symptoms.  Fevers  are  of  three  leading  types,
intermittent,  remittent,  and  continued.  Fe
vers  of  all  the  types  now  named  doubtless
existed  in  ancient  Palestine,  though  it  is  not
possible  in  all  cases  to  identify  them  with  cer
tainty.  Fever  is  the  rendering  of  the  He
brew  Kaddahath,  burning  (Lev.  xxvi.  16,  in
A.  V.  burning  ague;  Deut.  xxviii.  22).  In
the  latter  passage  it  is  associated  with  inflam
mation  and  fiery  heat,  both  febrile  symptoms.
Fever  is  likewise  the  correct  rendering  of  the
Greek  Puretos,  from  Pur,  fire  (Mat.  viii.  15  ;
Luke  iv.  38;  John  iv.  52;  Acts  xxviii.  8).
Galen  and  the  Greek  physicians  divided
fevers  into  greater  and  lesser.  Luke  in  the
passage  quoted  does  so  also,  as  might  be  ex
pected  from  one  who  was  himself  a  medical
man.  Fever  so  uniformly  attends  certain
diseases  that  the  two  are  mentioned  together,
as  in  the  designation  "  fever  and  dysentery."
When  the  sword,  the  famine,  and  the  pesti
lence,  are  mentioned  in  this  order  of  succes
sion  the  pestilence  was  probably  typhus  fever.
Field.
