{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2630","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":14,"chapter_to":14,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":27,"verse_to":27},"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>Dionysius of Alexandria</b>: And in Cephro indeed a considerable church sojourned with us, composed partly of the brethren who followed us from the city, and partly of those who joined us from Egypt. There, too, did God open to us a door for the word. And at first we were persecuted, we were stoned, but after a period some few of the heathen forsook their idols, and turned to God. For by our means the word was then sown among them for the first time, and before that they had never received it. And as if to show that this had been the very purpose of God in conducting us to them, when we had fulfilled this ministry, He led us away again.<br/><i>— Epistle X - Against Bishop Germanus</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"And when they were come, and had gathered the Church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how He had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles. And there they abode long time with the disciples.\" For the city being great had need of teachers.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 31</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"And when they were come,\" etc. They came, teaching them that with good reason had they been ordained by the Spirit. They said not what they themselves, but \"what God had done with them.\" It seems to me, that they mean their trials. It was not for nothing that they come here, nor to rest, but providentially guided by the Spirit, to the end that the preaching to the Gentiles might be firmly established. And mark Paul's ardor. He does not ask whether it be right to speak to Gentiles, but he straightway speaks: therefore it is that he says, \"I did not refer myself to flesh and blood.\"<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 31</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"afde7c459ed55f75f0e6e2e1992f88885b8c3046602decb0730105f036210738","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2630,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"b8b0fb32c6d1c8b60ee531d2bb967c0cf34418760c158e442d8695e285597f0f","translator":null,"work":null}