{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2838","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":2,"chapter_to":2,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":42,"verse_to":42},"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 they were persevering in the doctrine of the apostles,\" etc. As those who had converted continued devoutly in the doctrine that they had embraced, and as the apostles frequently performed great miracles, the fear of the Lord and the number of the faithful people increased daily. There was great concord among the believers, such that everyone would sell their own possessions and a brother would unfailingly be provided with whatever he stood in need of. Great also was their devotion to meeting in the temple. They would, too, take their food in simplicity of heart and with thanksgiving. That is why the Lord, favorably inclined towards them, always increased their number. Once, when Peter and John went up to the temple for prayer, they took the hand of a man who had been lame from his mother's womb and made him walk with firm steps. The people, seeing this, were filled with inexpressible wonder, and their eagerness to see more grew greater and greater, with vehement devotion.<br/><i>— Complexiones on the Acts of the Apostles</i></p><p><b>Didache</b>: But every Lord's day do ye gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. But let no one that is at variance with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned. For this is that which was spoken by the Lord: In every place and time offer to me a pure sacrifice; for I am a great King, saith the Lord, and my name is wonderful among the nations.<br/><i>— The Didache, Chapter 14</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"And they continued steadfastly and with one accord in the Apostles' doctrine and fellowship.\" Here are two virtues, perseverance and concord. \"In the Apostles' doctrine,\" he says: for they again taught them; \"and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayer.\" All in common, all with perseverance.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 7</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"And they continued\" it is written, \"steadfastly in the doctrine\" (or, \"teaching\") \"of the Apostles\": for it was not for one day, no nor for two or three days that they were under teaching as being persons who had gone over to a different course of life. \"And they continued with one accord in the Apostles' doctrine,\" etc. The expression is not \"together,\" but \"with one accord,\" (\"and daily,\" he says afterwards, \"they were continuing with one accord in the temple,\") i.e. with one soul.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 7</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: And here again in his conciseness, he does not relate the teaching given; for as young children, the Apostles nourished them with spiritual food.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 7</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"c06a2c9b2456bd19e145b6204f68417fdb422d6e3a64f827e1106fd0b3253fd6","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2838,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"850280a694088368f1589bca2197ae4bf1fd64ae9184308ef7e7777839dbf5c8","translator":null,"work":null}