{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2941","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":23,"chapter_to":23,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":5,"verse_to":5},"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>: I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest. For although he truly knew that this was not the high priest in the new testament, nonetheless teaching others, and thus urging those who are in power to behave more modestly, he also wanted to temper himself here.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Cyprian</b>: For since it is written, \"Neither shall revilers inherit the kingdom of God,\" and again the Lord says in His Gospel, \"Whosoever shall say to his brother, Thou fool; and whosoever shall say, Raca, shall be in danger of the Gehenna of fire,\" how can they evade the rebuke of the Lord the avenger, who heap up such expressions, not only on their brethren, but also on the priests, to whom is granted such honour of the condescension of God, that whosoever should not obey his priest, and him that judgeth here for the time, was immediately to be slain? In Deuteronomy the Lord God speaks, saying, \"And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest or to the judge, whosoever he shall be in those days, that man shall die; and all the people, when they hear, shall fear, and shall do no more wickedly.\" Moreover, to Samuel when he was despised by the Jews, God says; \"They have not despised thee, but they have despised me.\" And the Lord also in the Gospel says, \"He that heareth you, heareth me, and Him that sent me; and he that rejecteth you, rejecteth me; and he that rejecteth me, rejecteth Him that sent me.\" And when he had cleansed the leprous man, he said, \"Go, show thyself to the priest.\" And when afterwards, in the time of His passion, He had received a buffet from a servant of the priest, and the servant said to Him, \"Answerest thou the high priest so? \" the Lord said nothing reproachfully against the high priest, nor detracted anything from the priest's honour; but rather asserting His own innocence, and showing it, He says, \"If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why smitest thou me? \" Also subsequently, in the Acts of the Apostles, the blessed Apostle Paul, when it was said to him, \"Revilest thou God's priest? \" -although they had begun to be sacrilegious, and impious, and bloody, the Lord having already been crucified, and had no longer retained anything of the priestly honour and authority-yet Paul, considering the name itself, however empty, and the shadow, as it were, of the priest, said, \"I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy, people.\"<br/><i>— Epistle LIV</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"God will strike you, you who have been puffed up.\" It is worth asking how the same speaker elsewhere says, \"When condemned we bless, when persecuted we endure,\" (1 Cor. 4:12) whereas here, on the contrary, he not only condemns but also curses. And we say that these expressions are more a matter of boldness than of anger. For he did not wish to appear scornful toward the centurion. If he himself refrained from sparing the rod, as though about to be handed over to the Jews to be beaten by their servants, he would have made that man more brazen. But this is not, as some say, addressed to the child, but to the one who gave the command, for whom he immediately pleads. For knowing that one must also restrain righteous anger and hide rightful indignation, he speaks as if repenting: \"I did not know that he is the high priest,\" although he knew.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: For he said, \"And do you sit to judge me according to the law.\" But he pretends an ignorance that does not harm, but is economical. For there is also a stronger use of frankness by way of handling. For often frankness at an inopportune time harmed the truth, but a timely handling accomplished the matter at hand. [SEVERUS]<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"I did not know, brothers,\" and what follows. Some say that he did not know that he was the high priest, having returned after a long time, not being related to the Jews, and seeing him among many others; for the high priest was no longer obvious, many being present and different. Therefore, as not knowing, he reasonably defends himself as if there were an accusation, and bring forward, \"You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.\"<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"686627e449542e339b7269d929bf373981ba3ebd93e2a464c9ce4e36f743670a","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2941,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"e7aeec0087544be5b8e9403e7aaa3fed787817f1aca5ac320e27dc018dee4cd0","translator":null,"work":null}