{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2851","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":20,"chapter_to":20,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":9,"verse_to":9},"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>: Eutychus, alone, banished from the wakeful ones keeping watch, entrusted to a window with limbs sunk in heavy sleep. O rest wrongly won! O hearts always given over to sleep, unprotected by good! How great the disasters he lies open to, whom night alone guards and who never raises his troubled head to better things! He who allows [himself] to fall asleep from God does not know how to be wakeful for danger. Why do you seek the empty chaos of the window, young man, or why are you restful in that place where you will come to disaster? It is a matter harmful for well-being to seek high, hanging [places] and to wish to snatch furtive dreams on a steep couch.<br/><i>— ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 2</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: A certain young man named Eutychus was sitting at the window, etc. Eutychus in Hebrew means insane, in Greek lucky. One of these fits him who has fallen from the height of virtues due to youthful pleasure, the other to him who, by the preacher's condescension, will return to the height of virtues.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: Awakened from sleep, he fell down from the third loft, etc. During the words of preaching, an opportunity for healing arose, so that the word might be strengthened by the sweetness of the miracle and the doctrine, and the labor of vigils might be warded off, and the memory of the teacher soon to depart might be more deeply impressed upon minds. Indeed, the three lofts in which Paul was disputing represent faith, hope, and charity. But the greatest of these is charity (1 Cor. 13). If anyone out of laziness deserts it, and does not fear to slumber among the voice of the Apostle, he will already be counted among the dead. For whoever offends in one point becomes guilty of all (James 2).<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: Awoken from sleep, he fell from the third loft. For the third loft, in Greek it is written \"τριστέγου,\" which I wanted to mention so that the reader may know what is in Genesis, where Noah is ordered to build the ark: \"Make in it lower, second, and third decks\" (Gen. VI); for in Greek, \"στέγη\" means roof, and \"τρίστεγα\" means threefold roofs.<br/><i>— Retractions on Acts</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.\" And the wonderful circumstance is, that though he was a youth, he was not listless and indifferent; and though he felt himself weighed down by sleep, he did not go away, nor yet fear the danger of falling down. It was not from listlessness that he slumbered, but from necessity of nature.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 43</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Let us take shame to ourselves! \"Aye, but a Paul,\" say you, \"was discoursing then.\" Yes, and Paul discourses now, or rather not Paul, either then or now, but Christ, and yet none cares to hear. No window in the case now, no importunity of hunger, or sleep, and yet we do not care to hear: no crowding in a narrow space here, nor any other such comfort.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 43</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: That young man was to rebuke all that are careless of the word, he whose death was caused by nothing else than this, that he wished to hear Paul.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 43</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: And so, if it were agreed that even the blessed apostles had granted any such indulgence (to any crime) the pardon of which (comes) from God, not from man, it would be competent (for them) to have done so, not in the exercise of discipline, but of power. For they both raised the dead, which God alone (can do), and restored the debilitated to their integrity, which none but Christ (can do); nay, they inflicted plagues too, which Christ would not do.<br/><i>— On Modesty</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"413b2699d54dbc6cbcaf63c050c58c424a43b202bcb1749fb39e6256839e71fe","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2851,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"528e9686a28444b26b3812ea737b6fb479b0d5cbc520710a8008a2ecf7d5d72b","translator":null,"work":null}