{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2700","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":16,"chapter_to":16,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":37,"verse_to":37},"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>John Chrysostom</b>: But Paul said unto them, they have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out. Even upon the declaration of the magistrates Paul does not go out, but for the sake both of Lydia and the rest he puts them in fear: that they may not be supposed to have come out upon their own request, that they may set the rest in a posture of boldness. The impeachment was twofold: that being Romans, and uncondemned, they had openly cast them into prison. You see that in many things they took their measures as men.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 36</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: But Paul said unto them: that he may not seem to be receiving his liberty as one condemned, and as one that has done wrong: therefore it is that he says, Having openly beaten us uncondemned - that it may not be matter of grace on their part. And besides, they wish the jailer himself to be out of danger, that he may not be called to account for this afterwards. And they do not say, Having beaten us, who have wrought miracles: for they the magistrates did not even heed these: but, that which was most effectual to shake their minds, uncondemned, and being Romans.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 36</i></p><p><b>Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius</b>: When, therefore, Christ fulfilled these things which God would have done, and which He foretold many ages before by His prophets, incited by these things, and ignorant of the sacred Scriptures, they conspired together to condemn their God. And though He knew that this would come to pass, and repeatedly said that He must suffer and be put to death for the salvation of many, nevertheless He withdrew Himself with His disciples, not that He might avoid that which it was necessary for Him to undergo and endure, but that He might show what ought to take place in every persecution, that no one should appear to have fallen into it through his own fault.</p><p>Then they lifted Him up in the midst between two malefactors, who had been condemned for robbery, and fixed Him to the cross. What can I here deplore in so great a crime? or in what words can I lament such great wickedness? For we are not relating the crucifixion of Gavius, which Marcus Tullius followed up with all the spirit and strength of his eloquence, pouring forth as it were the fountains of all his genius, proclaiming that it was an unworthy deed that a Roman citizen should be crucified in violation of all laws. And although He was innocent, and undeserving of that punishment, yet He was put to death, and that, too, by an impious man, who was ignorant of justice. What shall I say respecting the indignity of this cross, on which the Son of God was suspended and nailed? Who will be found so eloquent, and supplied with so great an abundance of deeds and words, what speech flowing with such copious exuberance, as to lament in a befitting manner that cross, which the world itself, and all the elements of the world, bewailed?<br/><i>— The Divine Institutes, Book 4, Chapter XVIII</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"They beat us publicly.\" He shows a twofold protest when he says: Therefore they beat us publicly, etc., because both the Romans and the cause being proclaimed and the public manner. For he often frames human reasons with indulgence, for fear that he appear dismissed as one condemned by judgment, or as one who had sinned, and for fear that the matter be ascribed to their favor. [CHRYSOSTOM]<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: Knowing also that it is right to be subject to princes and powers, he called himself a Roman. For perhaps the emperor of the Romans held all the land, even Judea. For they themselves paid tribute to Caesar: not adding to the Roman principality and dominion, as other Jews, misleading themselves, who said that God alone was the true King and not a man; yet in fact as offshoots they were subject and paid tribute: denying the name indeed, but in fact subject; whom even Vespasian attacked as if not subject. [AMMONIUS]<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"f1ffdae17bd9338b8cd73b1b6b2632d37d0f0c215ee8134d51b5d28ab00fb65e","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2700,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"574deef0bd3b7f6d1de02f4e36c3807af1e2bf3991ea1164c06173b60f2090c1","translator":null,"work":null}