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Oecumenius, on Acts 12:1

Oecumenius · c. A.D. 550
Acts 12:1 · Douay-Rheims
“And at the same time, Herod the king stretched forth his hands, to afflict some of the church.”
On this verse:
“That period he says was under Claudius Caesar. Gaius, emperor of the Romans, established Agrippa as king of Judea, Herod being banished to Lugdunum in Gaul on account of the disgracefulness of his life, together with his wife Herodias. This is the one who reigned at the time of the Lord's passion, as Josephus writes in the eighteenth book of the Antiquities of History, and Eusebius in the second book of Ecclesiastical History. Therefore there is a discrepancy of the name in this passage, that Herod is put for Agrippa, and it happened by the writer's slip, as is likely, a scribal error, or was expressed by way of he having two names, since both the time and the actions point to Agrippa under the emperor Claudius, who became emperor after Gaius. [EUSEBIUS]”

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