21. On an appointed day Herod arrayed himself in his royal robes, took his seat upon [his] throne, and addressed an oration to them.
22. And the assembled people shouted, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!
23. And at once an angel of the Lord smote him and cut him down, because he did not give God the glory (the preeminence and kingly majesty that belong to Him as the supreme Ruler); and he was eaten by worms and died.
24. But the Word of the Lord [concerning the attainment through Christ of salvation in the kingdom of God] continued to grow and spread.