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ACTS 12:23 geno,menoj skwlhko,brwtoj {A}
After tw|/ qew|/ codex Bezae, supported in part by copG67 and by
Ephraem, 234 continues kai. kataba.j avpo. tou/ bh,matoj( geno,menoj
skwlhko,brwtoj e;ti zw/n...
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Verse Acts 12:23. _THE ANGEL OF THE LORD SMOTE HIM_] His death was
most evidently a judgment from God.
_BECAUSE HE GAVE NOT GOD THE GLORY_] He did not rebuke his
flatterers, but permitted them to gi...
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AND IMMEDIATELY THE ANGEL OF THE LORD - Diseases and death axe in the
Scriptures often attributed to an angel. See 2 Samuel 24:16; 1
Chronicles 21:12, 1Ch 21:15,...
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CHAPTER 12
_ 1. The great Persecution by Herod Agrippa I (Acts 12:1)._
2. The miraculous deliverance of Peter (Acts 12:6).
3. The Presumption and Judgment of Herod (Acts 12:18).
4. Barnabas and Sau...
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FATE OF THE SOLDIERS AND OF HEROD. For the soldiers, _cf. Acts 5:21_
ff. Here they are led away to be put to death. The story of Herod's
glorification and end is told by Josephus in a similar way; but...
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IMPRISONMENT AND DELIVERANCE (Acts 12:1-11)...
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Herod was furious with the people of Tyre and Sidon. But they came to
him with a common purpose. They gained the ear of Blastus the king's
chamberlain and sued for peace because their country was depe...
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IMMEDIATELY. Greek. _parachrema._ See note on Acts 3:7.
BECAUSE. the reason for (Greek. _anti._ App-104.) which.
EATEN OF WORMS. Greek. _skolekobrotos._ Only here. _skolex,_. worm,
only in Mark 9:44...
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_And immediately the_(an) _angel of the Lord smote him … and he was
eaten of worms_ Cp. the fate of Antiochus Epiphanes (2Ma 9:9), and
Herod the Great's death (Josephus, _Ant_. xvii. 6. 5). The passag...
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ΠΑΡΑΧΡΗ͂ΜΑ ΔῈ ἘΠΆΤΑΞΕΝ ΑΥ̓ΤῸΝ
ἌΓΓΕΛΟΣ ΚΥΡΊΟΥ Κ.Τ.Λ., _and immediately an angel of
the Lord smote him_ … _and he was eaten of worms_. Cf. the fate of
Antiochus Epiphanes (2Ma 9:9), and Herod the Great’...
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DEATH OF HEROD AGRIPPA I. GROWTH OF THE CHURCH...
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_HEROD DIED A TERRIBLE DEATH ACTS 12:20-25:_ Herod was highly
displeased with people of Tyre and Sidon. But their country got its
food from the region that he ruled. Blastus, the king's chamberlain
ha...
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ΈΠΆΤΑΞΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΑΤΆΣΣΩ (G3960)
ударять, бить, άνθ' ΏΝ (G473; G3739) Ποτοму
что. ΈΔΩΚΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325)
давать,
ΓΕΝΌΜΕΝΟΣ _aor. med. (dep.) part. (сопутств.)_,
_см._ A...
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DISCOURSE: 1774
THE EVIL OF PRIDE
Acts 12:21. _And upon a set day Herod, arrayed, in royal apparel, sat
upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. And the people gave a
shout, saying, It is the...
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AND UPON A SET DAY HEROD, &C.— Upon occasion of the games and
approaching festival hinted at in the last verse, there was a great
resort of the governors and principal men of the neighbouring
province...
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5.
AT JERUSALEM. Acts 12:1-24.
a.
Persecution of Herod. James beheaded. Peter imprisoned. Acts 12:1-5.
Acts 12:1
Now about that time Herod the king put forth his hands to afflict
certain of the c...
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See notes one verse 20...
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And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not
God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
AND IMMEDIATELY THE (OR 'AN') ANGEL OF THE LORD SMOTE HIM, BECA...
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17 The death of James and the escape of Peter mark a crisis in the
history of the kingdom proclamation. The power in Jerusalem passes out
of the hands of the apostles into the hands of James, the Lord...
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IMPRISONMENT OF PETER. DEATH OF HEROD
1-19. Persecution of the Church at Jerusalem by Herod. Martyrdom of
James the son of Zebedee. Peter's imprisonment and miraculous release.
The Church was persecut...
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DEATH OF HEROD AGRIPPA I, 44 a.d. Josephus's account of Herod's death,
which is quite independent, confirms St. Luke's (see 'Ant.'
19.8)....
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THE ANGEL] RV 'an angel.' This is, of course, the Christian
interpretation of the incident. No angelic appearance is to be
assumed....
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GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE
ACTS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 12
PETER IN PRISON AGAIN, 12:1-5
V1 At that time, King Herod arrested some members of the *church. He
made them suffer very badly. V2 He ordere...
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THE ANGEL OF THE LORD SMOTE HIM. — The intervention of the angel is
obviously regarded by St. Luke as the only adequate explanation at
once of the death of the persecutor and of the escape of his vict...
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Acts 12:23
CHAPTER 8
THE DEFEAT OF PRIDE.
Acts 12:1; Acts 12:23
THE chapter at which we have now arrived is very important from a
chronological point of view, as it brings the sacred narrative int...
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παραχρῆμα, see above, p. 106. ἐπάταξεν, _cf._ Exod.
11:23, 2Sa 24:17, 2 Kings 19:35; 1 Chronicles 21:15; Isaiah 37:36 1Ma
7:41. See p. 188. On the confusion in the reading of Eusebius, _H.E._,
ii., 10...
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BEYOND THEIR FAITH
Acts 12:13-25
Mark's mother was evidently a woman of property, as her house was
large enough to receive the many who felt that prayer was the key to
open Peter's prison. Rhoda is R...
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Again persecution broke out in Jerusalem, and the first of the
apostolic band suffered martyrdom at the hands of Herod. A revealing
sentence concerning Herod is that which declares that when "he saw
t...
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God Deals With Herod
The next morning, as one might imagine, the prison was in turmoil. No
one knew what had happened to Peter. When Herod could not find him, he
had the guards executed. Roman law req...
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(11) And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he (e)
gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the
ghost.
(11) God resists the proud.
(e) Josephus records that t...
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Struck him. Josephus relates, that when Herod saw he must die, he
replied to the flatteries of the people, "See, he whom you call a god,
is snatched out of life, in spite of himself. The necessity of...
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DOOM OF THE TYRANT
20-23. For reasons not here specified, the king was exceedingly mad at
the people of Tyre and Sidon, those great mercantile cities on the
Mediterranean coasts. He was not allowed to...
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_“Immediately the angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not
give the glory to God, and, being eaten with worms, he gave up the
ghost.”_
Here you see the soul-sleeping heresy, _i. e_., that you...
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And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his
throne, and made an oration unto them. (22) And the people gave a
shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. (23) And
i...
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We are now arrived at a turning-point in the history, not merely of
the church, but of the unfolding of the truth of God, and the
manifestation of His ways. The death of Stephen, therefore, has in
var...
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23._Forthwith he smote him. _As, before, the angel was a minister of
God’s grace in the delivery of Peter, so now he taketh vengeance
upon Herod. And God doth sometimes use the ministry of angels in
h...
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Herod, to please the Jews, begins to persecute the assembly in that
city. We may remark here, that the company of believers at Antioch are
also called the assembly (church), which is the case nowhere...
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AND IMMEDIATELY THE ANGEL OF THE LORD SMOTE HIM,.... With a disease
after mentioned; this angel, according to Josephus, appeared in the
form of an owl; for he says, that a little after (the shout of t...
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And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not
God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Ver. 23. _Because he gave not glory_] Joseph is trusted with all...
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_And upon a set day_ When shows and games were exhibited by him in
honour of Claudius Cesar; _Herod, arrayed in royal apparel_ In a
garment so wrought with silver, that the rays of the rising sun,
str...
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GAVE NOT GOD THE GLORY; he did not rebuke their impious flattery, but
was glad to be called a god, and receive divine honors. Jehovah is a
jealous God. Those who claim or consent to receive honors due...
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The judgment of God upon Herod:...
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AND IMMEDIATELY THE ANGEL OF THE LORD SMOTE HIM, BECAUSE HE GAVE NOT
GOD THE GLORY; AND HE WAS EATEN OF WORMS, AND GAVE UP THE GHOST....
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For a brief time again our eyes are turned toward Jerusalem and Peter,
though Peter's work is no longer taking the prominent place it did at
the beginning. Being the apostle to the Jews, he manifestly...
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THEN IMMEDIATELY AN ANGEL OF THE LORD STRUCK HIM, BECAUSE HE DID NOT
GIVE GLORY TO GOD. AND HE WAS EATEN BY WORMS AND DIED.
1. An angel of the Lord stuck him.
2. He did not glorify God. He was "high...
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"Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give
God the glory" God holds pagan rulers accountable! Both Luke and
Josephus agree that God's judgment fell on Herod because he glorif...
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20-25 Many heathen princes claimed and received Divine honours, but
it was far more horrible impiety in Herod, who knew the word and
worship of the living God, to accept such idolatrous honours witho...
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An angel had delivered Peter, and here an angel destroys Herod: all
that heavenly host fullfil God's will for the deliverance of his
church, and the destruction of his enemies. HE GAVE NOT GOD THE GLO...
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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]
Lactantius O...
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Acts 12:23 Then G1161 immediately G3916 angel G32 Lord G2962 struck
G3960 (G5656) him G846 because G473...
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‘And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he did not
give God the glory, and he was eaten of worms, and gave up his
breath.'
Immediately the angel of the Lord smote him so that he died,...
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JERUSALEM FINALLY REJECTS THE APOSTLES, KINGSHIP CEASES IN ISRAEL, AND
THE WORD OF GOD GOES ON MULTIPLYING (12:1-24).
The new centre for world evangelisation having been set up
(unknowingly at the tim...
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Acts 12:23. HE WAS EATEN OF WORM. Josephus speaks of violent and
torturing pains. The writer of the ‘Acts,' whom we believe to have
been identical with Luke, the beloved physician, gives a more accura...
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SMOTE HIM
(επαταξεν αυτον). Effective aorist active indicative of
πατασσω, old verb, used already in verse Acts 12:7 of gentle
smiting of the angel of the Lord, here of a severe stroke of
affliction...
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CONTENTS: Persecutions of the church and arrest of Peter. Prayer for
his deliverance and his miraculous release Death of Herod.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, Herod, James, Peter, 2 soldiers, angel, Mary, Mark,...
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Acts 12:1. _About that time,_ when the word of the Lord prevailed so
remarkably in Antioch and the northern provinces, and when Paul and
Barnabas had brought alms to Jerusalem, as in Acts 12:25, _Hero...
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STRUCK HEROD DOWN. _Josephus_ says he lived five days in great agony.
This agrees with what Luke tells us....
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_And … Herod … went down from Judea to Caesarea._
THE DEATH OF HEROD
This journey of Herod is described by Josephus. It would seem that he
left Judaea in disgust and spleen because Peter had escaped...
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_And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary
the mother of John, whose surname was Mark._
JOHN MARK
1. Two names are here, one Jewish, the other Roman; the latter adopted
at f...
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 12:20. For AND HEROD read _And_, or but, _he—i.e._, Herod.
HIGHLY DISPLEASED.—θυμομαχῶν, _in a hostile state of
mind_, in modern phrase, “contemplating hostilities” (Plumptre),...
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EXPOSITION
ACTS 12:1
_Put _for _stretched, _A.V.;_ afflict _for _vex, _A.V. The phrase,
ABOUT THAT TIME, as in Acts 19:23, points to what had just before been
related (Meyer). The interposition of th...
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Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Acts 12.
Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex
certain of the church (Acts 12:1).
There are just a lot of Herods in the Bible and it i...
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1 Chronicles 21:14; 1 Samuel 25:38; 2 Chronicles 21:18; 2 Chronicles
21:19;...
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An angel of the Lord smote him. An interesting parallel is furnished
by the story of Alp Arslan, a Turkish prince of the eleventh century.
"The Turkish prince bequeathed a dying admonition to the prid...
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HEROD'S DUPLICITY AND DEATH
Acts 12:18
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We come now to our final message concerning Peter's third
imprisonment. We are about to present the other side of the message.
We have seen...