Druscilla Her questionable life

Druscilla is also spelled Drucilla or Drusilla. It means fruitful or dewy-eyed.She is found in the New Testament here:

"Some days later, Felix arrived with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish. He sent for Paul and listened to him talk about faith in Jesus the Messiah."
International Standard Version Acts 24:24

Druscilla was born in the year 38. Six years later her father died and promised her in marriage to Gaius Epiphanes, the prince of Commagene on the condition that he convert to Judiism. When he refused, her brother broke the engagement and gave her to the King of Emesa after he agreed to follow Jewish tradition.

But, still in her teens, she left the king and married Felix. Apparently Felix had seen her at her brothers court and was stunned by her beauty.

Felix was the governor for Judea and sent a friend to persuade her to leave her husband and marry him. He promised she would have a happy life. He knew that she and her sister-in-law did not get along and she was miserable. So that is how Felix persuaded her to leave the king, although it was against all Jewish law. She married Felix at the age of 22. They had a son who was named Agrippa after her brother.That is the first version of her life. Here is another.

Druscilla was a princess of Mauretania and the only child of the king. Mauretanis was on the Mediterranean coast of north Africa. Its people were called "mauros" meaning black in greek.

According to this account, her father was executed when she was 2 years old. She was probably raised in the Emperor's home. When she was 15 the Emperor arranged for her to marry Judea Antonius Felix a former Greek. After a short time he divorced her in favor of a Judean princess. She later married the King of Emesa (now Syria). Emesa was on the coast and was an important city at that time.
According to the People's New Testament: It is possible the interest she had in Paul was due to the fact that her father had been a persecutor of the Christians, and his death had been pronounced a judgment.

The Geneva Study Bible describes her as a "harlot and very licentious woman"-probably because in the first story she was still married to the King according to Jewish law.

Then Wesley's Notes state: "She was the daughter of Herod Agrippa, one of the finest women of that age."

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary described the couple as "the oppressive judge and his profligate mistress, in need of repentance, forgiveness, and of the grace of the gospel."

So what's the point?
Well she seems to me to be a testament to the ease of being led astray. It appears the first story is most commonly accepted. In it she left a genuine lawful marriage to run away with this man Felix. It is so easy to believe that the grass is greener in another field.

The thing to remember is that God was with her throughout her life. At any time all she had to do was ask for His help and strength.

Here is a proverb for you, "Without God I am weak, but with God I am strong."

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