{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2560","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":13,"chapter_to":13,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":2,"verse_to":2},"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>Ammonius of Alexandria</b>: It must be noticed that the Holy Spirit does not speak to those who happen to be there by chance but to those who serve him and observe fasting. And it must be noticed again that they did not lay hands on the deacons at random but on those who were previously fasting and praying.<br/><i>— CATENA ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 13.2</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: Separate for me Barnabas and Saul for the work, to which I have called them. It seems that Saul, according to the order of history, in the thirteenth year after the passion of the Lord, received the apostleship with Barnabas and the name of Paul. But in the fourteenth year, according to the agreement of James, Cephas, and John, he set out to teach the Gentiles. Nor does the ecclesiastical history contradict, saying that the apostles were commanded to preach in Judea for twelve years.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: The Holy Spirit said: Set apart for me Barnabas and Paul for the work to which I have called them. This seems to have happened after the death of Herod, who died in the third year of the reign of Claudius, which, according to the chronicles, is the thirteenth year after the passion of the Lord. Since it is clear that Paul, along with Barnabas, was set apart for the apostleship after so much time had passed since the Lord's passion, it becomes evident that those who wrote or accepted the book we mentioned above about the death of Saint Mary are greatly mistaken. For it is written in that same fabrication, as we have often said, that in the second year after the Lord's ascension, when that most blessed Mother of God was about to die, the apostles, who had already been dispersed throughout the world to preach, suddenly came together in a cloud to visit her; among them was Paul, recently converted to the faith, and immediately made an apostle to the Gentiles with Barnabas. But it happened very differently: that is, he was not ordained an apostle in the second year after the Lord's passion, but in the thirteenth. Anyone who believes blessed Luke understands this; and thus the aforementioned book about the death of blessed Mary, being obviously mistaken in its timing, also proves to be of dubious faith in other respects.<br/><i>— Retractions on Acts</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate Me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.\" What means, \"Ministering?\" Preaching. \"Separate for Me,\" it says, \"Barnabas and Saul.\" What means, \"Separate for Me?\" For the work, for the Apostleship. See again by what persons he is ordained. By Lucius the Cyrenean and Manaen, or rather, by the Spirit. The less the persons, the more palpable the grace. He is ordained henceforth to Apostleship, so as to preach with authority.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 27</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: But mark also the authority of the Holy Ghost: \"As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate Me Barnabas and Saul.\" What being would have dared, if not of the same authority, to say this? \"Separate,\" etc. But this is done, that they may not keep together among themselves. The Spirit saw that they had greater power, and were able to be sufficient for many. And how did He speak to them? Probably by prophets: therefore the writer premises, that there were prophets also. And they were fasting and ministering: that thou mayest learn that there was need of great sobriety. In Antioch he is ordained, where he preaches. Why did He not say, Separate for the Lord, but, \"For me?\" It shows that He is of one authority and power.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 27</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: What does \"they were worshiping\" mean? That is, of those preaching.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"Set apart for me for the work.\" That is, to a mission. By whom, then, is he ordained? By Lucius and Manaen, but more by the Spirit. He is ordained so as to preach with authority.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Philoxenus of Mabbug</b>: And in every place is it written concerning them that they fasted and prayed. \"And while they were fasting and praying, the Holy Spirit said to them, Separate ye unto Me Paul and Barnabas for the work whereunto I have called them.\"<br/><i>— 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 11 -- On Abstinence</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"b41d489a962dfd32d7224fd28fd703b106205486c4ac4b1c15e28e980076d0e8","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2560,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"a4f5c7e18ceaa9631d648a694440260ff463879d8fb501394256758cdb1e8500","translator":null,"work":null}