{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2617","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":14,"chapter_to":14,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":12,"verse_to":12},"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>Ammonius of Alexandria</b>: In the writers of ancient stories you can find that Jove, even though he was a man, made himself a god and said that he was a god, just as many Roman and Macedonian kings styled themselves gods. There one ought to believe in what was said long ago about this, namely, that some were misled and called certain persons gods. Consequently these too were misled in regard to Barnabas and Paul.… Barnabas's followers, in order to close their mouths and to instruct them gently, kept saying, \"No one has ever seen God.\" We are what we look like, not gods but human. In Jesus alone it happened that he was God and man at the same time for the principle of union. But in this case, these were only men who performed miracles through the Holy Spirit.<br/><i>— CATENA ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 14.12</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: And they called Barnabas Jupiter; indeed, because he seemed to be the chief among them. For they thought Jupiter was the father of gods and king of men.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: But Paul, Mercury, because he was the chief speaker; because they believed Mercury to grant eloquence and speech to mortals. Hence, they called Mercury as if running in the middle, that is, between ears and tongues, and the Greeks called him Hermes, which means interpreter.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Shepherd of Hermas</b>: After he had spoken with me he rose up from the couch, and taking the Shepherd and the virgins, he departed. But he said to me that he would send back the Shepherd and the virgins to my dwelling. Amen.<br/><i>— Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 10</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"574e3ed9e1c9461102a81c16f916549aad2610ceb8681f79a9f3ea7aedbad1f4","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2617,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"c1fee5e3ffffe7bc4cb341e410e5b3b52e7d7152e9b888268cb1a7599a67c820","translator":null,"work":null}