{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2946","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":23,"chapter_to":23,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":11,"verse_to":11},"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>John Chrysostom</b>: \"And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of Me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.\" See what strong consolation! First he praises him, \"As thou hast testified to My cause in Jerusalem;\" then He does not leave him to be afraid for the uncertain issue of his journey to Rome: for thither also, He saith, thou shalt not depart alone, but thou shalt also have all this boldness of speech. Hereby it was made manifest, not only that he should be saved, but that he should be so in order to great crowns in the great city.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 49</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: But why did He not appear to him before he fell into the danger? Because it is evermore in the afflictions that God comforts us; for He appears more wished-for, while even in the dangers He exercises and trains us. Besides, he was then at ease, when free from bonds; but now great perils were awaiting him. \"And the Lord,\" it said, \"stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer: for as thou hast testified of Me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.\" Yet even after He has appeared to him, He again suffers him to be saved by man's means.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 49</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Some one might say, How is it, that having been told, \"Thou must also bear witness of Me in Rome\", he, as if unbelieving, did this? God forbid: nay, he did it, because he so strongly believed. For it would have been a tempting of God to be bold on account of that declaration, and to cast himself into numberless dangers, and to say: \"Let us see if God is able even thus to deliver me.\" But not so does Paul; no, he does his part, all that in him lies, committing the whole to God.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 51</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: For he says: \"do not fear to go down into Egypt,\" that is to say: as you are about to engage \"against principalities and powers and against the rulers of the darkness of this world\" — which is figuratively called Egypt — do not fear, do not tremble. And if you also wish to know the reason why you ought not to fear, hear my promise: \"for I will make you into a great nation there, and I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will call you back thence at the end.\" He does not, then, fear \"to go down into Egypt,\" he does not fear the contests of this world and to undergo the struggles of the opposing demons, with whom God has gone down into the contests. In short, hear the Apostle Paul saying: \"I labored more,\" he says, \"than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.\" But also in Jerusalem, when the sedition had been stirred up against him and he was sweating out a most glorious contest for the word and preaching of the Lord, the Lord stood by him and said the same things which are now said to Israel: \"do not fear,\" he says, \"Paul, because, as you have testified concerning me at Jerusalem, so must you give testimony also at Rome.\"<br/><i>— HOMILIES ON Genesis 15.5</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"baab5b446315684258c80868169a0db6d85e97c0e2ac27402eec38a341dab05d","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2946,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"295dfaf92c479ad27363044f187c64e78350f34c79a5392e20ca4690d9bc6c46","translator":null,"work":null}