13. Jesus therefore went up into heaven, and
fulfilled the promise. For He said to them, I will pray the
Father, and He shall give you another Comforter John xiv. 16.. So they were sitting, looking for the
coming of the Holy Ghost; and when the day of Pentecost was fully
come, here, in this city of Jerusalem,—(for this honour also
belongs to us Cat. iii. 7; xvi.
5. Bp. Pearson (Lectiones in Acta Apost. I. §
18): “Rightly said Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem, ‘All
prerogatives are with us.’ And the Emperor Justin called
her ‘Mother of the Christian name.’ Jerome also
(Ep. 17, 3), said: ‘The whole mystery of our Faith
is native of that province and city.‘”; and we speak not
of the good things which have happened among others, but of those which
have been vouchsafed among ourselves,)—on the day of Pentecost, I
say, they were sitting, and the Comforter came down from heaven, the
Guardian and Sanctifier of the Church, the Ruler of souls, the Pilot of
the tempest-tossed, who leads the wanderers to the light, and presides
over the combatants, and crowns the victors.