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Acts 12:2 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Scorpiace

that James is slain[112]

Acts 12:4 - NIV, NAB - in Peter of Alexandria Canonical Epistle

Let them recall to their minds also how Peter, the chief of the apostles, "was thrown into prison, and delivered to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; "[52]

Acts 12:4 - NIV, NAB - in Polycrates of Ephesus

It is surely noteworthy that nobody doubted that it was kept by a Christian and Apostolic ordinance. So St. Paul argues from its Christian observance, in his rebuke of the Corinthians.[4]

Acts 12:13 - NIV, NAB - in Shepherd of Hermas Vision First

He who had brought me up, sold me to one Rhode in Rome.[1]

Acts 12:13 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIII

s, but that the great have passed beyond such a position, some one will quote in opposition to US from the Acts of the Apostles, where it is written, that a certain maid Rhoda, when Peter knocked at the door, came to answer, and recognizing the voice of Peter, ran in and announced that Peter stood before the gate; but when they who were gathered together in the house wondered, and thought that it was quite impossible that Peter verily stood before the gate, they said, It is his angel.[178]

Acts 12:15 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Baptism

Thus, too, does the angel, the witness[45]

Acts 12:18 - NIV, NAB - in Peter of Alexandria Canonical Epistle

And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death,"[53]

Acts 12:23 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian To Scapula

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.[6]

Acts 12:23 - NIV, NAB - in Lactantius Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died

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.[29]

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