Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Acts 12:23

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 106, footnote 4 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Apologetic. (HTML)

To Scapula. (HTML)

Chapter III. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 451 (In-Text, Margin)

... it one day in its universal and final form, who interpret otherwise these samples of it. That sun, too, in the metropolis of Utica, with light all but extinguished, was a portent which could not have occurred from an ordinary eclipse, situated as the lord of day was in his height and house. You have the astrologers, consult them about it. We can point you also to the deaths of some provincial rulers, who in their last hours had painful memories of their sin in persecuting the followers of Christ.[Acts 12:23] Vigellius Saturninus, who first here used the sword against us, lost his eyesight. Claudius Lucius Herminianus in Cappadocia, enraged that his wife had become a Christian, had treated the Christians with great cruelty: well, left alone in his ...

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 7, page 314, footnote 2 (Image)

Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, 2 Clement, Early Liturgies

Lactantius (HTML)

Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died (HTML)

Chap. XXXIII (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1986 (In-Text, Margin)

... without hope of overcoming the malady, ceased not to apply fomentations and administer medicines. The humours having been repelled, the distemper attacked his intestines, and worms were generated in his body. The stench was so foul as to pervade not only the palace, but even the whole city; and no wonder, for by that time the passages from his bladder and bowels, having been devoured by the worms, became indiscriminate, and his body, with intolerable anguish, was dissolved into one mass of corruption.[Acts 12:23]

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 1, page 111, footnote 3 (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 335 (In-Text, Margin)

... minister of divine justice overtook him immediately after his plots against them, as the Book of Acts records. 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.[Acts 12:23]