Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Acts 12:19

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

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

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

Peter of Alexandria. (HTML)

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 ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 1, page 111, footnote 2 (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 II (HTML)

Agrippa, who was also called Herod, having persecuted the Apostles, immediately experienced the Divine Vengeance. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 334 (In-Text, Margin)

1. consequences of the king’s undertaking against the apostles were not long deferred, but the avenging minister of divine justice overtook him immediately after his plots against them, as the Book of Acts records.[Acts 12:19] For when he had journeyed to Cæsarea, on a notable feast-day, clothed in a splendid and royal garment, he delivered an address to the people from a lofty throne in front of the tribunal. And when all the multitude applauded the speech, as if it were the voice of a god and not of a man, the Scripture relates that an angel of the Lord smote him, and being eaten of worms he gave up the ghost.