God, receiving from the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, hath shed forth this gift824
which ye now see and hear. For David has not ascended into the heavens; but he saith
himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit Thou on My right hand, until I make Thy foes
Thy footstool. Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that
same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.”825 And when the multitudes
exclaimed, “What shall we do then?” Peter says to them, “Repent, and be baptized everyone
of you in the name of Jesus for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy
Ghost.”826 Thus the apostles did not preach another God, or another Fulness; nor, that the
Christ who suffered and rose again was one, while he who flew off on high was another, and
remained impassible; but that there was one and the same God the Father, and Christ Jesus
who rose from the dead; and they preached faith in Him, to those who did not believe on
the Son of God, and exhorted them out of the prophets, that the Christ whom God promised
to send, He sent in Jesus, whom they crucified and God raised up.
3. Again, when Peter, accompanied by John, had looked upon the man lame from his
birth, before that gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, sitting and seeking alms, he
said to him, “Silver and gold I have none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus
Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. And immediately his legs and his feet received strength;
and he walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising
God.”827 Then, when a multitude had gathered around them from all quarters because of
this unexpected deed, Peter addressed them: “Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this; or
why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power we had made this man to walk?
The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath
glorified His Son, whom ye delivered up for judgment,828 and denied in the presence of
Pilate, when he wished to let Him go. But ye were bitterly set against829 the Holy One and
the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; but ye killed the Prince of life,
whom God hath raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses. And in the faith of His
name, him, whom ye see and know, hath His name made strong; yea, the faith which is by
Him, hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. And now, brethren,
I wot that through ignorance ye did this wickedness.830 … But those things which God before
824 The word δῶρον or δώρημα is supposed by some to have existed in the earliest Greek texts, although not
found in any extant now. It is thus quoted by others besides Irenæus.
825 Acts ii. 30–37.
826 Acts ii. 37, 38.
827 Acts iii. 6, etc.
828 These interpolations are also found in the Codex Bezæ.
829 These interpolations are also found in the Codex Bezæ.
830 These interpolations are also found in the Codex Bezæ.
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Chapter XII.—Doctrine of the rest of the apostles.