Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Acts 12:18

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 6, page 277, footnote 11 (Image)

Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius and Minor Writers, Methodius, Arnobius

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The Canonical Epistle, with the Commentaries of Theodore Balsamon and John Zonaras. (HTML)

Canon XIII. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2334 (In-Text, Margin)

... minds also how Peter, the chief of the apostles, “was thrown into prison, and delivered to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him;” of whom, when he had escaped by night, and had been preserved out of the hand of the Jews by the commandment of the angel of the Lord, it is said, “As soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter. And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death,”[Acts 12:18-19] on account of whom no blame is attributed to Peter; for it was in their power, when they saw what was done, to escape, just as also all the infants in Bethlehem, and all the coast thereof, might have escaped, if their parents had known what was ...