{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2548","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":12,"chapter_to":12,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":15,"verse_to":15},"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>: But they were saying, \"It is his angel.\" That each of us has an angel is found both in the book of the Shepherd and in many places of the Holy Scriptures. For the Lord also speaks of the little ones: \"Their angels always see the face of my Father\" (Matt. XVIII). And Jacob speaks of himself: \"The angel who redeemed me from all evil.\" And here the disciples believed that the angel of the apostle Peter had come.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Cosmas Indicopleustes</b>: archangels are entrusted with the administration and guardianship of particular nations and kingdoms: Yea, even that an angel attends each man as his guardian; as when the church says concerning Peter in Acts: It is his angel. The Lord likewise in the Gospels exclaims: For their angels always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven; thus plainly showing that each one of us has his angel, evidently as his guide and his guardian<br/><i>— The Christian Topography, Book 2</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. And they said, It is his angel. This is a truth, that each man has an Angel. It was from the time of night that they surmised this.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 26</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: And they said unto her, Thou art mad: but she constantly affirmed that it was even so: then said they, It is his Angel. And what would the Angel? It was from the time of night that they surmised this.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 26</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"It is his angel.\" From this it is clear that each one of us has an angel. But they expected this from the time. For he says, \"Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.\" (Matt. 18:20) Where Christ is, there must be angels as well, and all the powers.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: Thus, too, does the angel, the witness of baptism, \"make the paths straight\" for the Holy Spirit, who is about to come upon us, by the washing away of sins, which faith, sealed in (the name of) the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, obtains.<br/><i>— On Baptism</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"aa5a8b2f1f0f7cea2c598d3a013faf7f9c0b4805d8eccf700be38dced8920c54","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2548,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"6a26f05ded7cc8f20b100c3a1656a99bd7efc90c6ca6e1f8171982cf031dd776","translator":null,"work":null}