{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2871","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":20,"chapter_to":20,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":31,"verse_to":31},"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>: But because [Paul] said, \"Night and day for three years I gave these teachings for your salvation,\" an allegory is revealed by this reckoning [of his]: he who utters three doctrines of the church rather often brings forth the historical and allegorical Book, proclaiming [also] a moral [sense]. For thus the six pots reddened with the new liquid out of the old law took three measures apiece. The ancient form of the perfect sacrifice commanded that one offer three loaves from the basket; to these [mysteries] is added what Christ said to his disciples, that three loaves ought to be given to one asking when it was already night; that night surely is the world, so that, if anyone here desires the food of the word, you should produce a banquet, you who are asked, and teach the willing one that the Father and the Son [and] the Holy Spirit are one God and that a single Substance trebles the number.<br/><i>— ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 2</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: For three years, night and day, I did not cease to admonish each one of you with tears. This is beautifully and succinctly explained by Arator: He who sings of the Church's three doctrines, often produces a Historical, moral-sounding, and typological volume; Hence Judea, lying empty, is called the barren tree, Which, after three years, did not produce the expected fruit.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"How then? what comfort shall there be?\" \"Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.\" See how many strong expressions are here: \"with tears,\" and \"night and day,\" and \"every one.\" For it was not that if he saw many, then he came in (to the work), but even were it for a single soul, he was capable of doing everything (for that one soul). So it was, in fact, that he compacted them together (so firmly as he did). \"Enough done on my part: three years have I remained:\" they had establishing enough, he says; enough of roofing. \"With tears,\" he says. Seest thou that the tears were on this account? The bad man grieves not: grieve thou: perhaps he will grieve also. As, when the sick man sees his physician partaking of food, he also is incited to do the same: so likewise here, when he sees thee weeping, he is softened: he will be a good and great man.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 44</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Night and day,\" he says, \"I cease not to warn with tears.\" This might well be said in our case also: and though the speech seems to refer peculiarly to the teachers, it is common also to the disciples. For what, though I speak and exhort and weep night and day, while the disciple obeys not? Therefore it is that he says, \"I take you to record:\" since also himself says, \"I am pure from the blood of all men: for I have not shunned to declare unto you.\"<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 44</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"4ca93e51feb7311a5e9cf180633ff300ef7e02bb4d76a8e555d3d0cbdccc9b8d","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2871,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"8eddbd06ab2bc4ca1976c3100103634a0b0954d176d46ad64cdd5320fb6d9f3e","translator":null,"work":null}