{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2613","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":14,"chapter_to":14,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":8,"verse_to":8},"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>Bede</b>: And a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, sat, etc. Just as that lame man whom Peter and John healed at the gate of the temple prefigures the salvation of the Jews, so also this sick man of Lycaonia, a people far removed from the religion of the law and temple, but gathered by the preaching of the apostle Paul. He says, \"They gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that we should go unto the Gentiles, and they unto the circumcision.\" And the times agree with the exposition. For he was in the early days of faith, when the word had not yet been believed by the Gentiles; but here the Jews, having been expelled for their unbelief and sprinkled with the dust of condemnation, are healed amidst the new joys of the converted Gentiles.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: the same heard Paul speak: who steadfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, said with a loud voice\" - why with a loud voice? that the multitude should believe - \"Stand upright on thy feet.\" But observe, he gave heed, it says, to the things spoken by Paul. Do you mark the elevation of the man's mind? He was nothing defeated by his lameness for earnestness of hearing. \"Who fixing his eyes upon him, and perceiving,\" it says, \"that he had faith to be made whole.\" He was already predisposed in purpose of mind.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 30</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: And yet in the case of the others, it was the reverse: for first receiving healing in their bodies, they were then taken in hand for cure of their souls, but this man not so. It seems to me, that Paul saw into his soul. \"And he leaped,\" it says, \"and walked.\" It was a proof of his perfect cure, the leaping.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 30</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"9e5509ec7b60fbb9442af4f450fe8e01f9906968f2479385c89f1bdeb40a5397","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2613,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"f090aa7eac8e349a02b1d1f1411c7405c57f6c4ba472041bec085908629e8dc3","translator":null,"work":null}