{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2688","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":16,"chapter_to":16,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":23,"verse_to":23},"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>Ammonius of Alexandria</b>: This is Stephen whom Paul mentions in the first letter to the Corinthians.<br/><i>— CATENA ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 16.31-32</i></p><p><b>Ammonius of Alexandria</b>: \"They ordered the jailer to keep them securely.\" Since they knew their virtue, they deceived themselves by saying, \"Keep them securely.\" But by doing so they testified that they were not ordinary but great men who had the power to do, through the Lord, whatever they wanted.<br/><i>— CATENA ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 16.23</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison\" - great was their wrath - \"charging the jailer to keep them safely\": \"And the magistrates,\" charging the jailer to keep them safely: that they may be the means of a greater miracle. The stricter the custody, the greater the miracle. It was probably from the wish to cut short the disturbance, that the magistrates did these things; because they saw the crowd urgent, and wished to stay their passion at the instant, therefore they inflicted the stripes: at the same time it was their wish to hear the matter, and that was why they cast them into prison and gave charge \"to keep them safely.\"<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 35</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"2bcb127136f4a28d0adb1680f4a00a43ace15c39e6fd37a8e4b5afd691b1b599","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2688,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"e16c60c8053a503ee1a87517385b11f1afd12a2b2ab3c5f1f77f5e01fe197bdb","translator":null,"work":null}