ACTS 12:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judea to Cesarea, and there abode.”
After Herod had a thorough search made for him and did not find him, he cross-examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then Herod went from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there.'—Herod's violence escalates: the guards are executed (perhaps for negligence, perhaps for sympathy). His departure to Caesarea (the coastal city, his usual residence) shows disengagement from Jerusalem. The failed persecution and resultant retaliation reveal the tyrant's impotence.
Church Fathers on Acts 12:19
Some persons, it is likely, are at a loss how to explain it, that God should quietly look on while (His) champions are put to death, and now again the soldiers on account of Peter: and yet it was possible for Him after (delivering) Peter to rescue them also. But it was not yet the time of judgment, so as to render to each according to his deserts. And besides, it was not Peter that put them into his hands. For the thing that most annoyed him was the being mocked; just as in…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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