Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Acts 5:21

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 8, page 522, footnote 4 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 2261 (In-Text, Margin)

... seen a brazen pillar, and a statue standing upon it, he came and sat down behind that pillar until he should see what should happen. And it happened that the executioners went to the prison to bring out the men for their food, according to the custom; and they found the doors of the prison opened, and the guards that guarded it lying dead upon the ground. And straightway they went, and reported to the rulers of the city, saying: We found the prison opened, and having gone inside we found nobody;[Acts 5:20-25] but we found the guards lying dead upon the ground. And the rulers having heard this, said among themselves: What, then, has happened? You do not mean to say that some persons have gone into the prison of the city, and have killed the warders, and ...