Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Acts 28:4

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 18, footnote 2 (Image)

Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian

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CCEL Footnote 45 (In-Text, Margin)

... the case stand? Was Martin really not possessed of power, and not a partaker of holiness, because he became exposed to danger from fire? O thou blessed man, and in all things like to the Apostles, even in the reproaches which are thus heaped upon thee! Assuredly those Gentiles are reported to have entertained the same sort of thought respecting Paul also, when the viper had bitten him, for they said, “This man must be a murderer, whom, although saved from the sea, the fates do not permit to live.”[Acts 28:4] But he, shaking off the viper into the fire, suffered no harm. They, however, imagined that he would suddenly fall down, and speedily die; but when they saw that no harm befell him, changing their minds, they said that he was a God. But, O thou most ...