Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians

I am one delivered over [to death], but the least of all those that have been cut off for the sake of Christ, "from the blood of righteous Abel"[90]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V " In like manner, too, did the Lord say to those who should afterwards shed His blood, "All righteous blood shall be required which is shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation."[118]

Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I

And that the blood is the Word, is testified by the blood of Abel,[98]

Five Books in Reply to Marcion

Hers "just Abel"[122]

Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

but also over the righteous, because they refused to consent to it, and rather withstood it, by putting away from themselves the vices and concupiscence of lusts,-men like those who have arisen at times from Abel on to Zacharias;[268]

Peter of Alexandria Canonical Epistle

Together with whom, having sought to kill another infant that had been previously born, and not being able to find him, he slew the child's father Zacharias between the temple and the altar, the child having escaped with his mother Elisabeth.[58]

The Protevangelium of James

And Zacharias was murdered about daybreak. And the sons of Israel did not know that he had been murdered.[53]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X

for the expression, "They were sawn asunder," refers to Isaiah, just as the words, "They were slain with the sword," refer to Zacharias, who was slain "between the sanctuary and the altar,"[120]

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