NT Characters: Drusilla

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/drusillamp3/">website</a>.</p><p><strong>References</strong></p><ul><li>Acts 24:24</li><li>Josephus, <i>Jewish Antiquities</i>, xx.7.2.</li><li>NT Character Podcast on <i>Felix</i></li></ul><p><strong>Birth</strong></p><ul><li>Born in Rome (?) 38 AD</li><li>The youngest of three daughters of Herod Agrippa I (grandson of Herod the Great), who had killed the apostle James (Acts 12).</li><li>She was apparently quite beautiful.</li></ul><p><strong>Marriage</strong></p><ul><li>Married as a teenager.</li><li>Accepted an invitation to leave her lawful husband to marry Felix. Felix engaged the services of a Jewish Cypriot magician (similar to the sorcerer of Acts 13?) to persuade her to leave her husband.</li><li>Thus she ignored the clear teaching of Judaism on marriage.</li><li>Felix and Drusilla had a son, Marcus Antonius Agrippa, as well as a daughter, Antonia Clementiana.</li></ul><p><br /><strong>Death</strong></p><ul><li>Died 24 August 79 in Pompeii, with the famous eruption of Mount Vesuvius.</li><li>Two famous people died in the eruption: Drusilla and Pliny the elder. (He was a personal friend of the emperor Vespasian)--who died trying to rescue a friend.</li></ul><p><strong>Lessons</strong></p><ul><li>Cultivate character, not only the outward self.</li><li>Remain faithful to your spouse.</li><li>Judgment will eventually overtake us all.</li></ul>