{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3052","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":27,"chapter_to":27,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":43,"verse_to":43},"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>: And so it was through themselves being saved that they learnt who Paul was. But some one may say: why did he not save the ship? That they might perceive how great a danger they had escaped: and that the whole matter depended, not on the help of man, but on God's hand saving them independently of a ship.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 53</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Again the devil tries to impede the prophecy: the soldiers wanted to kill the prisoners, but the centurion prevented them in order to save Paul. The centurion had become a very dear friend.<br/><i>— CATENA ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 27.41-43</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land: and the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 53</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: Again from this it is shown that Paul had been favored, for although some wished to kill him so that the prophecy about Paul might not fail, the centurion did not allow them to be killed in order to save Paul.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"183ed157ae77cd9b5f71f8bba36f6b84a14fda044bc4ce0e25378e0c7b84d9b7","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3052,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"fe003e5e68bca47ce5913392561258a697f3632b785c5aa029bd19682f602146","translator":null,"work":null}