{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2744","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":18,"chapter_to":18,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":9,"verse_to":9},"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>Didymus the Blind</b>: In Corinth, God appeared in a vision to the apostle and urged him not to be afraid to teach, and he made clear to him the reason why he should speak and not be silent, namely that, in that town, there were many that God knew would receive the proclamation of the gospel. For since it was natural that Paul, being human, was afraid of some attack against himself, seeing that then nearly everyone there was still pagan, God encourages and rouses the teacher to be brave by saying, \"I am with you and will prevent anybody from attempting to harm you, so that nobody lays a hand on you.\"<br/><i>— CATENA ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 18.9-11</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace: for I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.\" See by how many reasons He persuades him, and how He puts last the reason which of all others most prevailed with him, \"I have much people in this city.\" Now even the number of the \"much people\" persuaded him, but Christ's claiming them for His own moved him more. Yet He says also, \"Fear not\": for the danger was become greater now, both because more believed, and also the ruler of the synagogue. This was enough to rouse him. Not that he was reproved as fearing; but that he should not suffer aught; \"I am with thee, and none shall set upon thee to hurt thee.\" For He did not always permit them to suffer evil, that they might not become too weak. For nothing so grieved Paul, as men's unbelief and setting themselves against the Truth: this was worse than the dangers. Therefore it is that Christ appears to him now.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 39</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: \"by night in a vision.\" It should be noted that Paul saw the Lord Jesus by a dream. Therefore, he himself said: Did I not see Jesus our Lord? Whether he saw Jesus in a dream, or saw him while awake, there is no difference; moreover he appeared to him also by day. [AMMONIUS]<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"18ed780a63f748efcc1a91c45ad36af00ce9c0f896ad5621d8dc8cee135056ff","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2744,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"484866b49a1cdf05b98021cb68056c00ed2ed33ddf8a324f702371459e72a209","translator":null,"work":null}