{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3101","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":3,"chapter_to":3,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":19,"verse_to":19},"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>: \"Repent ye therefore,\" he says, \"and be converted.\" He does not add, \"from your sins;\" but, \"that your sins, may be blotted out,\" means the same thing. And then he adds the gain: \"So shall the times of refreshing come from the presence of the Lord.\" This betokens them in a sad state, brought low by many wars. For it is to the case of one on fire, and craving comfort, that the expression applies.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 9</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Repent ye therefore.\" \"Why? For either it was through ignorance, or by the dispensation of God.\" \"That your sins may be blotted out.\" I do not mean the crimes committed at the Crucifixion; perhaps they were through ignorance; but so that your other sins may be blotted out: this only. \"So shall the times of refreshing come unto you.\" Here he speaks of the Resurrection, obscurely. For those are indeed times of refreshing, which Paul also looked for, when he said, \"We that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burthened.\"<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 9</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: Therefore he says: \"Repent,\" not concerning those things done on the cross (for he had said concerning those, that they were in ignorance), but concerning other sins.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: And by saying, \"times of refreshing,\" he indicates that many hardships are about to happen to them, and that wars will be brought about. For this word would be fitting to one who weeps and longs for relief. \"That times of refreshing may come,\" he says. That is, during the times of refreshment which, from the presence of the Lord, he says will be presided over by the divine and fatherly essence. For it is not fitting that those who insulted the Son through the passion should not find the recompense which those in the Roman camps under Vespasian and Titus, who raged against Christ on behalf of the Jews, also found. And not only are they deprived of their civic life, but after the desolation of their metropolis and the temple they wander about, living scattered everywhere, and until the end of this corruptible life they will not in any way obtain refreshment. For at that same time the coming of Christ from heaven will award to each according to the measure for the rewards of their labors. The knowledge that these things will then occur he now places before the Jews, so that by fear of these things they may be more readily drawn to repentance.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: meaning the resurrection from the dead in its proper time. Even as he says to the Galatians: \"Let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap.\" Similarly, concerning Onesiphorus, does he also write to Timothy: \"The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy in that day; \" unto which day and time he charges Timothy himself \"to keep what had been committed to his care, without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ: which in His times He shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords,\" speaking of (Him as) God It is to these same times that Peter in the Acts refers, when he says: \"Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; and He shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of His holy prophets.\"<br/><i>— On the Resurrection of the Flesh</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"c5406293ccec2bd9615cddc4f2c724862d844461e4896814d587164eed03433a","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3101,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"98336264f7058588270cf332e7f77673b928a299a5109ce24b84182777cbdce0","translator":null,"work":null}