{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2561","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":13,"chapter_to":13,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":3,"verse_to":3},"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 when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.\" Seest thou what a great thing fasting is? A great, yes a great good is fasting: it is circumscribed by no limits. When need was to ordain, then they fast: and to them while fasting, the Spirit spake.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 27</i></p><p><b>Pseudo-Basil</b>: The Lord, upon appearing to Paul from heaven, said, \"Go to Damascus, and you shall be told that you are my chosen vessel,\" because [the Lord] had established him as the herald of the gospel to all the world. Then Ananias said to him, when he arrived in Damascus, \"Brother Saul, see once more: the God of the fathers has preordained you.\"8 And lest you think this word [i.e., God] refers to Christ, he adds, \"to do his will and to know his just one Jesus.\" [Paul], making this calling and preordaining a title, says, \"Paul a slave of Jesus Christ, called apostle.\"10 Then he says something else regarding this calling, \"Set aside for the gospel of God.\" The Acts of the Apostles taught that the Spirit directed the setting aside, for it says, \"While the apostles were fasting and praying, the Holy Spirit said, 'Set aside for me Paul and Barnabas for the work to which I have called them.' \" If the Lord, the God of the fathers, chose him whom he had preordained, while the Son called him forth, and the Spirit, using the operation of [the divine] nature, set the same one aside, how is there a difference of nature in the Trinity in which an identity of operation is found?<br/><i>— AGAINST Eunomius 5</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"69833c4b864d667ae0d343f633b858402a59a4dc7a513860b9f11575777fa826","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2561,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"32ebc28d70c2c69a9d875404e8c951222510a35f4948452f7aac08b6e20866da","translator":null,"work":null}