²¹ and on a set day, Herod having arrayed himself in kingly apparel, and having sat down upon the tribunal, was making an oration unto them,

^{22 Ref} and the populace were shouting, `The voice of a god, and not of a man;'

^{23 Ref} and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.