{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3186","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":6,"chapter_to":6,"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>John Chrysostom</b>: \"But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.\" Again they plead for themselves, beginning and ending with this. \"Will give ourselves continually,\" he saith. For so it behooved, not just to do the mere acts, or in any chance way, but to be continually doing them. Thus they were enabled to give their attention to things spiritual; thus were these also free to undertake long journeys; thus were these put in trust with the word.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 14</i></p><p><b>Philoxenus of Mabbug</b>: And again the Apostles said when they wished to choose seven deacons, \"We will continue steadfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the word.\"<br/><i>— 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 11 -- On Abstinence</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"4fc6b13623b0ea38b0ba22a0d42fd050f825c651669cc91d9cfc6bd7a5b84e9d","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3186,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"1cd8a878db4dece2525b6e4d752d4d9cd69b3a2e1aeb5fad7672ec83ca938677","translator":null,"work":null}