{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3157","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":14,"verse_to":14},"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>: \"There were,\" however, \"the more added unto the Lord, believers, multitudes both of men and of women.\"</p><p>\"Believers were the more added unto the Lord, multitudes both of men and of women.\" Observe, how he now no longer tells the number of them that believe; at such a rate was the faith making way even to an immense multitude, and so widely was the Resurrection proclaimed. So then \"the people magnified them:\" but they were now no longer lightly to be despised as once they were: for in a little moment, at a single turn of the scale, such have been the effects produced by the fisherman and by the publican! Earth was become a heaven, for manner of life, for boldness of speech, for wonders, for all besides; like Angels were they looked upon with wonder: all unconcerned for ridicule, for threats, for perils: compassionate were they, and beneficent; some of them they succoured with money, and some with words, and some with healing of their bodies and of their souls; no kind of healing but they accomplished.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 12</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"854b31ff9583087c181455c3f4fbd47f6d88b35cd74cdeada490794cbdd3111d","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3157,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"7fca6d4db0eaa634f4dd06cdc055552694a34d5de5525a0aba53ee6bb9b69809","translator":null,"work":null}