{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3184","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":6,"chapter_to":6,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":2,"verse_to":2},"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>: Oh, rich glory of the apostles' speech, never to permit people to feel a famine of virtues! A distributed sum of money desires increase. The coin of language entrusted [to them] was displeasing when it remained alone. That passage shows that food for the mind is better for an uncultivated people than victuals spread through their limbs and that the richness of the heavenly word nourishes a broadly skilled mind. For of what advantage are the foods of bodily nourishment when the soul is hungry?<br/><i>— ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 1</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: It is not right for us to abandon the word of God and serve tables. About this, Arator: . . . . This place indicates that the offerings of the mind are better for an unlearned people than the dishes served to the body.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Clement of Alexandria</b>: A temperate man, too, must rise before the general company, and retire quietly from the banquet. \"For at the time for rising,\" it is said, \"be not the last; haste home.\" The twelve, having called together the multitude of the disciples, said, \"It is not meet for us to leave the word of God and serve tables.\" If they avoided this, much more did they shun gluttony.<br/><i>— The Instructor Book 2</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.\" Well said: for the needful must give precedence to the more needful. But see, how straightway they both take thought for these inferior matters, and yet do not neglect the preaching. Do you observe how outward concerns succeed to inward? They do not act at their own discretion, but plead for themselves to the congregation. So ought it to be done now. \"It is not reason,\" says he, \"that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.\" First he puts to them the unreasonableness of the thing; that it is not possible for both things to be done with the same attention: just as when they were about to ordain Matthias, they first show the necessity of the thing.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 14</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"1c4b597b1fb9ff7d567e49194fe2ffd5154f21b3d332c7ce0ad27dabd3b5da35","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3184,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"b3cef629ee2fde25017abbdbad7ff2c7e25d08a1a91eaf553525be61d36f6a6e","translator":null,"work":null}