{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3298","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":9,"chapter_to":9,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":11,"verse_to":11},"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>Bede</b>: Behold, he prays and sees a man named Ananias entering and laying hands on him. In Greek, it is held thus: And he saw in a vision a man, that is, ἐν ὁράματι, which name Juvencus the priest also used in the evangelical poem, saying: Make all ignorant of this vision. Therefore, it appears that during those three days, in which he, being blinded, awaited the grace of future light, he was by no means idle or torpid, but rather elevated by divine illumination, he explored heavenly secrets; and, unless I am mistaken, it is credible that at that time he was taught the mystery of the evangelical dispensation, of which he himself boasts to the Galatians, saying: For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but through a revelation of Jesus Christ (Gal. I). And shortly afterwards: But when it pleased Him who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem, etc. (Ibid.). Also, the text of this little book, which is appended: He was with the disciples who were at Damascus for some days, and immediately in the synagogues he preached Jesus, that He is the Son of God (Acts IX), in no way asserts that he learned anything from men, but rather confirms that he immediately took up the ministry of an eminent teacher after baptism. Certainly, he is to be compared to him of whom it is written: Because the word of the Lord set him on fire (Psalm CIV).<br/><i>— Retractions on Acts</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: The Lord said not to him, Converse with him, and catechize him. For if, when He said, \"He prayeth, and hath seen a man laying his hands upon him,\" He did not persuade him, much less had He said this. So that he shall not disbelieve thee, \"he hath seen in a vision.\" Observe how in the former instance neither is Philip told all immediately. Fear not, He saith: \"for this man is a chosen vessel for Me.\" He more than sufficiently released him of his fear, if the case be so that this man shall be so zealous in our cause, as even to suffer many things.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 20</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: And this Ananias was a deacon, as Paul himself testifies in the canons. This happened because there was no elder present in Damascus on account of the persecution. [AMMONIUS]<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: The Scripture which he was reading falls in opportunely with his faith: Philip, being requested, is taken to sit beside him; the Lord is pointed out; faith lingers not; water needs no waiting for; the work is completed, and the apostle snatched away. \"But Paul too was, in fact, `speedily' baptized: \"for Simon, his host, speedily recognized him to be \"an appointed vessel of election.<br/><i>— On Baptism</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"88c1f9dbf96194a3e3081d5c6e92ff9db27dbb495331dddd5ea2b3af07a1783d","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3298,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"ff25ee83560c17ea93b13ed287c678eeccf93160b2b2c58c80b771e3094170a5","translator":null,"work":null}