{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3084","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":2,"verse_to":2},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Arator</b>: The feeble man is laid at the Beautiful Gate. The poor man is not strong enough to go farther or to touch the threshold of the gate. His guilt denies him entrance. Who are those accustomed to carry Israel, lame in its heart, and who strive to bring it to the gate [called] beautiful, which signifies Jesus by its name? Isaiah, Daniel, and those like them who proclaim with prophetic voice in obscure [words] the manifest miracles of Christ; and he who has the name of the gate thus himself warns, \"I am the gate for you; he who refuses to enter through me will be a guilty thief.\"<br/><i>— ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 1</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: And a certain man, who was lame from his mother's womb, was carried. For the people of Israel were rebellious not only to the Incarnate Lord, but from the very first times of the given law, as if lame from the mother's womb. This is well figured by Jacob wrestling with the angel, blessed indeed, but limping (Gen. XXXII), because the same people, prevailing in the passion of the Lord, were in some ways blessed through faith, but in others lame through disbelief.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: Whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple, which is called Beautiful. The Beautiful Gate of the temple is the Lord, through whom if anyone enters, he shall be saved. To this gate, the weak Israel, unable to go on his own, is carried by the voices of the law and the prophets, so that he may beseech help from those entering the interior, by hearing the wisdom of faith. They place listeners at the gate by the prophecy of what is to come, but it is Peter's to lead them into the temple, to whom for a strong confession both the name of the rock and the keys of heaven have been given.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: A miraculous sign again takes place, which both confirms the converts, and draws over the rest; and such, as they were a sign for having wrought. The disease was in the nature of the man, and baffled the art of medicine. He had been forty years lame, as the writer says afterwards, and no one during all that time had cured him. And the most obstinate diseases are those which are born with men. It was a great calamity, insomuch that even to provide for himself his necessary sustenance was impossible for him. The man was conspicuous both from the place, and from his malady. Hear how the matter is related. \"And a certain man, lame from his mother's womb, was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple.\" He sought to receive alms, and he did not know who the men were.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 8</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: The man was in the act of being carried at that instant. \"Whom they laid daily:\" just when people went into the temple. And that you may not suppose that they carried him for some other purpose, but that it was in order that he might receive alms, hear what the writer says: \"so that he might receive alms of those entering into the temple.\" And this is the reason why he also makes mention of the places, to give evidence of what he relates.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 8</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: How does he not say the name of the lame man? because even the apostles did not know him. For the man was entirely unknown to them. And this was so that they might not appear to be showing special favor, and making cures by effort, nor might any suspicion of hypocrisy be entertained even by the most shameless, that some acquaintances of the apostles were pretending the cures about them for the sake of favor from the apostles. How then did they not learn his name after the healing? Because they had no leisure to concern themselves with things that profit nothing. But why did they not bring him to be healed by Christ? Perhaps some of those attending the temple were unbelieving; moreover they did not even bring him to the apostles, having seen them entering and performing such miracles. That he was lame from his mother's womb, all who were in the temple knew. Therefore, since it was unmistakable that this was the case, they had no concern for the name of the Lord himself so as to tell us that they called him by that name, but only about his ailment and his designation: and this illness and suffering became for him a foremost and well-known sign. And when many miracles were performed by the apostles, as we have said, the Jews did not bring him to them, either because they envied Christ, or because of unbelief: for they did not yet think that so great a miracle could be worked.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"3914a4c166aa6e22e37f882e85dc27a9371f875bbf60a509259754bf982b8c38","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3084,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"1efe37e113c6d60a59bdc8408bf7a186149a115b582823d20b0bab11db28ff73","translator":null,"work":null}