Acts 28:6

However they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
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John Chrysostom

AD 407
But when he shook his hand, and flung off the beast, then they saw and were astonished. And the miracle did not take place suddenly, but the men went by the length of time, after they had looked a great while, so plainly was there no deceit, no haste here (συναρπαγή). Publius, it says, lodged them courteously
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