Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Acts 26:26

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 149, footnote 10 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Apologetic. (HTML)

Ad Nationes. (HTML)

Appendix: A Fragment Concerning the Execrable Gods of the Heathen. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1110 (In-Text, Margin)

... violated virgins, he begat him sons; defiled freeborn boys; oppressed peoples lawlessly with despotic and kingly sway. The father, whom they erringly suppose to have been the original god, was ignorant that this (son of his) was lying concealed in Crete; the son, again, whom they believe the mightier god, knows not that the father whom himself had banished is lurking in Italy. If he was in heaven, when would he not see what was doing in Italy? For the Italian land is “not in a corner.”[Acts 26:26] And yet, had he been a god, nothing ought to have escaped him. But that he whom the Italians call Saturnus did lurk there, is clearly evidenced on the face of it, from the fact that from his lurking the Hesperian tongue is to this day called ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 4, page 48, footnote 4 (Image)

Athanasius: Select Writings and Letters

The Incarnation of the Word. (HTML)

On the Incarnation of the Word. (HTML)

Necessity of a public death for the doctrine of the Resurrection. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 263 (In-Text, Margin)

But even if, without any disease and without any pain, He had hidden His body away privily and by Himself “in[Acts 26:26] a corner,” or in a desert place, or in a house, or anywhere, and afterwards suddenly appeared and said that He had been raised from the dead, He would have seemed on all hands to be telling idle tales, and what He said about the Resurrection would have been all the more discredited, as there was no one at all to witness to His death. Now, death must precede resurrection, as it would be no resurrection did not death precede; so that if the ...