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Acts 23:4 (WEB)
Those who stood by said, “Do you malign God’s high priest?”

Fathers and councils · 4

Cyprian of Carthage, Epistles Letter 54
“Also subsequently, in the Acts of the Apostles, the blessed Apostle Paul, when it was said to him, “Revilest thou God’s priest?”—although they had begun to be sacrilegious, and impious, and bloody, the Lord having already been crucified, and had no longer retained anything of the…” — editor's note: Acts xxiii. 4.
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Cyprian of Carthage, Epistles Letter 64
“Mindful of which precepts, the blessed Apostle Paul, according to what we read in the Acts of the Apostles, when it was said to him, “Revilest thou thus God’s high priest?” answered and said, “I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest; for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.”” — editor's note: Acts xxiii. 4, 5.
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Cyprian of Carthage, Epistles Letter 68
“…of the priestly name, he said, “I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest; for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.”” — editor's note: Acts xxiii. 4, 5.
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Augustine of Hippo, On the Sermon on the Mount I.19Book I
“For what belonged to humility he wonderfully preserved, when, on its being said to him, “Revilest thou the high priest?” he replied, “I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest; for it is written, Thou shall not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.”” — editor's note: Acts xxiii. 3–5.
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