{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2539","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":12,"chapter_to":12,"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>John Chrysostom</b>: Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the Church unto God for him. For the contest was now for life and death: both the slaying of the one made them fearful, and the casting of the other into prison.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 26</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Peter therefore was kept in prison. But this was all the better for Peter, who was thereby made more approved, and evinced his own manly courage. And it says, \"there was earnest prayer making.\" It was the prayer of filial affection: it was for a father they asked, a father mild. \"There was,\" it says, \"earnest prayer.\" Hear how they were affected to their teachers. No factions, no perturbation: but they betook them to prayer, to that alliance which is indeed invincible, to this they betook them for refuge. They did not say, \"What? I, poor insignificant creature that I am, to pray for him!\" for, as they acted of love, they did not give these things a thought. And observe, it was during the feast, that their enemies brought these trials upon them, that their worth might be the more approved.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 26</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: So Peter was kept in the prison. They, being at large, were at prayer: he, bound, was in sleep.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 26</i></p><p><b>Philoxenus of Mabbug</b>: And again when Simon was bound in prison, it is written that the whole church prayed. And in every place is it written concerning the Apostles that they fasted and prayed, for they also tarried in this service of fasting and abstinence after they had received the Spirit.<br/><i>— 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 11 -- On Abstinence</i></p><p><b>Severus of Antioch</b>: This we urge you, by both supplications and tears, to contribute to us—insignificant ones. For the shared sufferings of the church call for shared prayers, just as when Peter, the head of the apostles, was bound in prison by two chains and watched over by guards … \"there was made constant prayer by the church to God for him.\" When this is the case for an apostle, who needs help, and prayers are offered up by the church, how would we, the uninitiated and brood of sin, not all the more beg these prayers to be offered for us by the faithful, those noble limbs of the church and educated to groan with godly and spiritual perception?<br/><i>— CATENA ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 12.5</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"7cb6b156fa00f7303951171ca17cb97505b690e96b36a8a0c14b3cb9ebeb1aee","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2539,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"106baa1ee865868c5c58f5c91a621d3d9a494c95f497bf7402740af2da51c021","translator":null,"work":null}