{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2841","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":45,"verse_to":45},"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>Augustine of Hippo</b>: They first dwelt together in unity; who sold all they had, and laid the price of their goods at the Apostles' feet, as is read in the Acts of the Apostles. And distribution was made to each one as he had need, and none called anything his own, but they had all things common. And what is \"together in unity\"? They had, he says, one mind and one heart God-wards. So they were the first who heard, Behold how good and how pleasant is it, that brethren dwell together.<br/><i>— Exposition on the Psalms, Psalms 133</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: This was an angelic commonwealth, not to call anything of theirs their own. Forthwith the root of evils was cut out. By what they did, they showed what they had heard: this was that which he said, \"Save yourselves from this untoward generation.\"<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 7</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Observe the increase of piety: They cast away their riches, and rejoiced, and had great gladness, for greater were the riches they received without labor. None reproached, none envied, none grudged; no pride, no contempt was there. As children they did indeed account themselves to be under teaching: as new born babes, such was their disposition. Yet why use this faint image? If you remember how it was when God shook our city with an earthquake, how subdued all men were. Such was the case then with those converts. No knavery, no villany then: such is the effect of fear, of affliction! No talk of \"mine\" and \"thine\" then. Hence gladness waited at their table; no one seemed to eat of his own, or of another's;-I grant this may seem a riddle. Neither did they consider their brethren's property foreign to themselves; it was the property of a Master; nor again deemed they aught their own, all was the brethren's. The poor man knew no shame, the rich no haughtiness. This is gladness. The latter deemed himself the obliged and fortunate party; the others felt themselves as honored herein, and closely were they bound together.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 7</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: For indeed, because when people make doles of money, there are apt to be insults, pride, grudging; therefore says the Apostle, \"Not grudgingly, or of necessity.\"<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 7</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"b40292203c15d7c29c0ee73ea9efbd97d353e7f3e50f8a7d370d30bb8b50c605","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2841,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"1a219a957351867674c869930a22a86bd900969e44c1b23a59f44146173ad021","translator":null,"work":null}