{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3232","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":7,"chapter_to":7,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":41,"verse_to":41},"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>: \"Make us gods\"-they did not say, \"a God.\"-And yet one may well wonder at this, that they do not even know.-\"And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifices unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands\": for which they ought to have hid their faces. What wonder that ye know not Christ, seeing ye knew not Moses, and God Who was manifested by such wonders? But they not only knew Him not: they also insulted in another way, by their idol making.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 17</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Hence these same \"customs\" date their origin, hence the sacrifices: they were themselves the first that made sacrifices to their idols! For that is why it is marked, \"They made a calf in Horeb, and offered sacrifices to the idol:\" seeing that, before this the name of sacrifice is nowhere mentioned, but only lively ordinances, and \"lively oracles. And rejoiced\"-that is the reason for the feasts.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 17</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"053afc25f2a33b5c8cdaef5da4cc10582541ac43fecf7338d92f9c00c7e2ca03","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3232,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"2cbc628b41057a1b6ed5045614c372b48d0c9b04b65d4432f25d05a8e2658d47","translator":null,"work":null}