{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3244","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":7,"chapter_to":7,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":54,"verse_to":54},"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>: \"Now hearing these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed with their teeth. \"The unbelieving, unable to tolerate Stephen's preaching, were hastening unanimously to effect his death. Stephen, raising his eyes to heaven, saw the Son standing on the right hand of the Father. When he said this in pure truth, the crowd of madmen ran violently upon him and, having cast him out of the city, pelted him with stones. But Stephen, dying, prayed for them that this crime might not weigh down his persecutors. Paul too consented to his death, and he raised a great persecution against the church established in Jerusalem; for, after Stephen's body was buried with pious lamentation, this Paul made a havoc of the church with a hatred as great as the affection with which he would later defend it. Meanwhile Philip the deacon, another one of the seven, going down to the city of Samaria, earnestly preached the word of the Lord and performed by the power of Christ many miracles on the people who desired it, and the city was filled with great joy as a result.<br/><i>— Complexiones on the Acts of the Apostles</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: See, once more, the wrong-doers in trouble. Just as the Jews are perplexed, saying, \"What are we to do with these men?\" so these also are \"cut to the heart.\" And yet it was he that had good right to be incensed, who, having done no wrong, was treated like a criminal, and was spitefully calumniated. But the calumniators had the worst of it in the end. So true is that saying, which I am ever repeating, \"Ill to do, is ill to fare.\" And yet he (in his charges against them) resorted to no calumny, but proved what he said. So sure are we, when we are shamefully borne down in a matter wherein we have a clear conscience, to be none the worse for it.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 18</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: If they had wished to kill him, why did they not immediately kill him then? For they wished to put a credible cause upon the boldness. For to them the outrage was not a reasonable cause for execution, but perhaps for driving him away or chastising him, not for killing him. Otherwise the outrage would not have been his, but the prophet's accusation against them. And they did not wish to seem to be killing him because of the outrages against them, just as they did not wish to kill Christ. For they did not intend murder, but were eager to harm his honor. For they feared that if he were not put to death for insulting them, he might become the more revered.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"c4ba9439b8661a083da6254a7c24abd35d76f66a61ca9e9290f063355cc9b5b7","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3244,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"40edbf300f080bdd8491a338296c316f94353a9db005c1e63ee7204dc46c663d","translator":null,"work":null}