Acts 28:3 (WEB)
But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened on his hand.
Fathers and councils · 2
Gregory of Nyssa
“For if (says he) you say that they are eternal, you will be Greeks, and Valentinians, and uninstructed: and if you say that they are generate, you will no longer be able to ascribe ungeneracy to God.” — editor's note: βάρβαροι here being not opposed to “Greeks” must imply mere inability to speak aright: amongst those who claimed to use Catholic language another “barbarism,”…
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Tertullian
“Finally, we often aid in this way even the heathen, seeing we have been endowed by God with that power which the apostle first used when he despised the viper’s bite.” — editor's note: Acts xxviii. 3.
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in Scorpiace Chapter 1.
Cited together in Scorpiace Chapter 1.
Cited together in Scorpiace Chapter 1.
Cited together in Scorpiace Chapter 1.
Cited together in Scorpiace Chapter 1.
Cited together in Scorpiace Chapter 1.
Cited together in Scorpiace Chapter 1.