{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2538","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":12,"chapter_to":12,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":4,"verse_to":4},"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>: Delivering him to four squads of soldiers. Just as a centurion has a hundred soldiers under him, so does a squad of soldiers have soldiers under him.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Whom having arrested, he put in ward, having delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers. This was done both of rage, and of fear. He slew James the brother of John with the sword. Do you mark their courage? For, that none may say that without danger or fear of danger they brave death, as being sure of God's delivering them, therefore he permits some to be put to death, and chief men too, Stephen and James, thereby convincing their slayers themselves, that not even these things make them fall away, and hinder them.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 26</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: He feared lest Peter, in consequence of the slaying of James, should withdraw; and wishing to have him in safe keeping, he put him in prison: \"and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers\": the stricter the custody, the more wondrous the display.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 26</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"four squads of four.\" That is, the total number sixteen; for four times four makes sixteen. Perhaps at each watch, that is, in the third watch, there were four guards. There are four guards called a tri-hour watch, as the twelve hours of the whole night being four watches; in each of which, with four soldiers guarding, all together make the number sixteen. Observe the Jews in the days of Unleavened Bread doing such things. [CHRYSOSTOM]<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Peter of Alexandria</b>: Let them recall to their minds also how Peter, the chief of the apostles, \"was thrown into prison, and delivered to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; \"of whom, when he had escaped by night, and had been preserved out of the hand of the Jews by the commandment of the angel of the Lord, it is said, \"As soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter. And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death,\" on account of whom no blame is attributed to Peter; for it was in their power, when they saw what was done, to escape.<br/><i>— The Canonical Epistle</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"7cb26031ea343722fd1ee6c63f5b9d7e87e0a07c8170a89d79a5e9f406d48e67","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2538,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"d58a0d4f12ddc54fe6723524d2336674ebe759554134ba5ebf2d60c869ee0a1c","translator":null,"work":null}