{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2759","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":19,"chapter_to":19,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":1,"verse_to":1},"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>Cassiodorus</b>: \"And it came to pass, while Apollo was at Corinth, that Paul having passed through the upper coasts, came,\" etc. While Apollo was at Corinth, it came to pass that Paul, having passed through the upper coasts, came to Ephesus, where, having found certain disciples, he asked if they had received the grace of the Holy Ghost when they were baptized. They declared that they were entirely ignorant of that name, but had been consecrated in John's baptism. Paul baptized them while invoking the Trinity, and the Holy Ghost came upon them, making them able to prophesize in various tongues. Paul, staying there for three months, preached about the Lord Christ in his customary manner.<br/><i>— Complexiones on the Acts of the Apostles</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper coasts\" - meaning what we have read as to Caesarea and the other places - \"came to Ephesus, and having found certain disciples.\" But whence had those, being in Ephesus, the baptism of John? Probably they had been on a visit at Jerusalem at the time of John's preaching, and did not even know Jesus.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 40</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: Knowing only John's baptism. It is worth asking how, if he knew only John's baptism, he nevertheless possessed the Spirit; for the Spirit was not given in that way. And if those who came after him needed the baptism of Christ, much more would he have needed it. What then is one to say? For he did not simply set both side by side. It seems, therefore, that he was one of the one hundred and twenty who were baptized after the apostles. [CHRYSOSTOM]<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: Accordingly, in the Acts of the Apostles, we find that men who had \"John's baptism\" had not received the Holy Spirit, whom they knew not even by hearing. That, then, was no celestial thing which furnished no celestial (endowments): whereas the very thing which was celestial in John-the Spirit of prophecy-so completely failed, after the transfer of the whole Spirit to the Lord, that he presently sent to inquire whether He whom he had himself preached, whom he had pointed out when coming to him, were \"HE.<br/><i>— On Baptism</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"d49dd474ec73b27dd40d00adc1eb95b51f0f0d2232fcb80b532ded2b15cbaefd","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2759,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"2457dcf6785b2e33fb3bdad3ce8732b8b7eb86c69425a1450de015b6e2a65e90","translator":null,"work":null}