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Acts 4:26 (WEB)
The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers plot together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.’

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§436Article 2 · "And in Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord"Read at vatican.va
“This had to be the case all the more so for the Messiah whom God would send to inaugurate his kingdom definitively.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Ps 2:2; Acts 4:26-27.

Augustine of Hippo, Confessions IX.8Book IX
“But Thou, Lord, Governor of heavenly and earthly things, who convertest to Thy purposes the deepest torrents, and disposest the turbulent current of the ages, healest one soul by the unsoundness of another; lest any man, when he remarks this, should attribute it unto his own power if another, whom he wishes to be…” — editor's note: Not only is this true in private, but in public concerns. Even in the crucifixion of our Lord, the wicked rulers did (Acts. iv. 26) what God’s hand and God’s…
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 2
“For what they wished, namely, Christ’s destruction, they accomplished not; for this is spoken of our Lord’s persecutors, of whom also mention is made in the Acts of the Apostles.” — editor's note: Acts iv. 26.
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Augustine of Hippo, Harmony of the Gospels III.17Book III
“But further, inasmuch as the pagans are in the habit of bringing such slanderous charges against the Gospel, I would ask them to consider how their own writers have spoken of Phaedras and Medeas and Clytemnestras, when there really was but a single individual reputed under each of these names.” — editor's note: Acts iv. 26, 27.
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Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion III.21Book III
“…vain devices;” after that “the kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers took their counsel together against the Lord, and against His Christ.”” — editor's note: Comp. Ps. ii. 2, 3, with Acts iv. 25–30.
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