{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2873","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":20,"chapter_to":20,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":33,"verse_to":33},"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>: \"I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.\" He takes away that which is the root of evils, the love of money. \"Silver, or gold,\" he says. He says not, I have not taken, but, not even \"coveted.\" No great thing this, but what follows after is great. \"Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. I have showed you all things, how that so laboring, ye ought to support the weak.\" Observe him employed in work and not simply that, but toiling. \"These hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me:\" so as to put them to shame. And see how worthily of them. For he says not, Ye ought to show yourselves superior to money, but what? \"to support the weak\" - not all indiscriminately...<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 45</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: So then, it was not in Corinth only that they did this - they that corrupted the disciples, but in Asia as well. But he nowhere casts this up as a reproach to the Ephesians, when writing to them. And why? Because he did not fall upon any subject that obliged him to speak of this. But to the Corinthians he says, \"My boasting has not been stopped in the regions of Achaia.\" And he does not say, Ye did not give to me; but, \"Silver, or gold, or apparel, I coveted not,\" that it might not seem to be their doing, that they had not given. And he does not say, From no man have I coveted the necessaries of life, that again it might not look like accusing them: but he covertly hints as much, seeing that he provided subsistence for others as well as himself. See how he worked with earnestness, \"night and day\" discoursing to others, \"with tears warning each one of them.\" Again he puts them in fear: \"I have showed you all things,\" he says: ye cannot take refuge in the plea of ignorance: \"have shown you\" by works \"how that so laboring ye ought to work.\"<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 45</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"Silver or gold,\" and the following. The root of evils, greed, is destroyed. For he does not simply say, I did not receive, but, Nor did I desire. Then he shows that true almsgiving ought to come from one's own labors to the needy, since it is not good to give from another's. [CHRYSOSTOM]<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"22bc8b850506e7f6170461823b7631470041fed0137c816f1b1dee351480e852","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2873,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"1eebacb4e19fa794c62fabda3c87947de15a906a92d7c5f787bd3e406d35f113","translator":null,"work":null}