Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Acts 7:8

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 434, footnote 3 (Image)

Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus

Irenæus (HTML)

Against Heresies: Book III (HTML)

Chapter XII.—Doctrine of the rest of the apostles. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3511 (In-Text, Margin)

... no, not so much as to set his foot on; yet He promised that He would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him. … And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land, and should be brought into bondage, and should be evil-entreated four hundred years; and the nation whom they shall serve will I judge, says the Lord. And after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place. And He gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so [Abraham] begat Isaac.”[Acts 7:2-8] And the rest of his words announce the same God, who was with Joseph and with the patriarchs, and who spake with Moses.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 1, page 138, footnote 6 (Image)

Eusebius: Church History from A.D. 1-324, Life of Constantine the Great, Oration in Praise of Constantine

The Church History of Eusebius. (HTML)

Book III (HTML)

The Last Siege of the Jews after Christ. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 626 (In-Text, Margin)

2. For the Jews after the ascension of our Saviour, in addition to their crime against him, had been devising as many plots as they could against his apostles. First Stephen was stoned to death by them,[Acts 7:8] and after him James, the son of Zebedee and the brother of John, was beheaded, and finally James, the first that had obtained the episcopal seat in Jerusalem after the ascension of our Saviour, died in the manner already described. But the rest of the apostles, who had been incessantly plotted against with a view to their destruction, and had been driven out of the land of Judea, went unto all ...