{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3095","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":13,"verse_to":13},"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>Bede</b>: The God of our fathers glorified His Son Jesus, whom you indeed delivered, etc. In Greek it is more appropriately stated: The God of our fathers glorified His servant Jesus. For it was fitting for a wise teacher, when addressing those who had killed Him, first to recall His humanity, which could be delivered up and slain; then gradually revealing the glory of His resurrection, to declare that He is also God and God's Son. Finally, shortly after, he calls Him the Author of life. And at the conclusion of the speech, more openly: To you first, he says, God, raising up His Son, sent Him blessing you, that your sins may be blotted out, that when the times of refreshment shall come from the presence of the Lord, then your sins may be blotted out. The times of refreshment, however, signify the distinction of the universal judgment and the redemption of the just, of which they themselves, having indeed suffered tribulations but made safe in hope, say to the Lord in the psalm: We went through fire and water, and you brought us into refreshment (Psalms 65). For then indeed our sins will be fully blotted out when, by the power of the resurrection, the last enemy, death, shall be destroyed (I Corinthians 15). In a certain translation, we find this verse positioned this way for the explanation of the sense: That when the times of refreshment come, they may come to you from the face of the Lord. And indeed it is thus written in Greek, with the addition of that pronoun: That when the times of refreshment shall come from the presence of the Lord to you.<br/><i>— Retractions on Acts</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers.\" See how assiduously he thrusts himself upon the fathers of old, lest he should appear to be introducing a new doctrine. In the former address he appealed to the patriarch David, here he appeals to Abraham and the rest. \"Hath glorified His Servant Jesus.\" Again a lowly expression, like as in the opening address. But at this point he proceeds to enlarge upon the outrage, and exalts the heinousness of the deed, no longer, as before, throwing a veil over it. This he does, wishing to work upon them more powerfully. For the more he proved them accountable, the better his purpose were effected. \"Hath glorified,\" he says, \"His Servant Jesus, Whom ye delivered up, and denied Him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.\" The charge is twofold: Pilate was desirous to let Him go; you would not, when he was willing.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 9</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Here he also subjoins something else; for he no more says, \"of Nazareth,\" but what? \"The God of our fathers hath glorified His Servant Jesus.\" Observe also the modesty. He reproached them not, neither did he say at once, \"Believe then now: behold, a man that has been forty years lame, has been raised up through the name of Jesus Christ.\" This he did not say, for it would have excited opposition. On the contrary, he begins by commending them for admiring the deed, and again calls them after their ancestor: \"Ye men of Israel.\" Moreover, he does not say, It was Jesus that healed him: but, \"The God of our fathers hath glorified,\" etc. But then, lest they should say, How can this stand to reason-that God should glorify the transgressor? therefore he reminds them of the judgment before Pilate, showing that, would they but consider, He was no transgressor; else Pilate had not wished to release Him. And he does not say, \"when Pilate was desirous,\" but, \"was determined to let Him go.\"<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 9</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: Peter remains still among the more humble, those around him and concerning Christ: concerning themselves, as if to say, not to perform miracles by their own private power; concerning Christ, to add the child; for it is not the self-glorified one who receives an addition of glory. Having humbled both himself and Christ, he raises the boldness of the Jews against Christ, and no longer overshadows as before. He does this wishing rather to lead them on. For insofar as he showed them guilty, so much the more did this become so.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: Through the words, \"whom you delivered up and denied,\" there are two crimes. For to Pilate they delivered him to be killed, saying, \"It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death;\" (Jn. 18:31) and they denied him, crying out, \"We have no king but Caesar.\" (Jn. 19:15) Yet even with Pilate being a Greek, having neither seen a sign from Christ nor heard prophets concerning Christ, and although he wished to release him, they themselves beheld Christ performing miracles, and, having stood as witnesses to the prophets' declarations concerning him, they would not endure it.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: Accordingly, all the synagogue of Israel did slay Him, saying to Pilate, when he was desirous to dismiss Him, \"His blood be upon us, and upon our children; \" and, \"If thou dismiss him, thou art not a friend of Caesar; \" in order that all things might be fulfilled which had been written of Him.<br/><i>— An Answer to the Jews</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"2c93210a58e1e7e8022d8d9d8410a5f71b5c872a60acb34d06cc39bfa83e1097","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3095,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"7401cdebbef422739311f8f31a3c32a4445acf4a36a6d51c3ca1fc6837bb0005","translator":null,"work":null}