{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2861","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":20,"chapter_to":20,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":21,"verse_to":21},"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>: \"Both Jews, and Greeks.\" Not (addressing myself) to you alone. \"Testifying:\" here, the boldness of speech: and that, even though we do no good, yet we must speak: for this is the meaning of \"testifying,\" when we speak to those who do not pay attention: and so the word diamarturasthai is for the most part used. \"I call heaven and earth to witness\" (Deut. iv. 26), diamarturomai, Moses, says: and now Paul himself, Diamarturomenoj \"both to Jews and Greeks repentance toward God.\" What testifiest thou? That they should be careful about their manner of life: that they should repent, and draw near to God. \"Both to Jews and Greeks\"-for neither did the Jews know Him-both by reason of their works, he says, \"repentance towards God,\" and, by reason that they knew not the Son, he adds, \"and faith in the Lord Jesus.\"<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 44</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"0f86a8fca46c965d66198762360a8af42b0af9dec7b633ca93a087e3184f4e46","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2861,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"f87e43a89ab8e9d5b428bf727c4c7104869523f1939ca653a936a27c2f9c02b1","translator":null,"work":null}