{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3172","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":32,"verse_to":32},"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>: And we are witnesses of these words, and the Holy Spirit whom God gave to all who obey Him. We are witnesses because we have seen the glory of His resurrection, because we have followed with our eyes as He ascended into the heavens. The Holy Spirit is also a witness, because as we proclaim to you the great works of God with unyielding proclamation, He has strengthened us with His presence, He has formed these words in us as He speaks within us. And this is what the Lord promised them, saying: But when the Comforter comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness of me, and you will bear witness (John 15), that is, He by inspiring you to speak, and you by providing outward testimony, will bear witness of me.<br/><i>— Retractions on Acts</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Great boldness of speech! And the ground of their credibility: \"And so is also the Holy Ghost, Whom God hath given to them that obey Him.\" Do you observe that they allege not only the Spirit's testimony? And they said not, \"Whom He hath given\" to us, but, \"to them that obey Him:\" therein alike showing their own unassuming temper, and intimating the greatness of the gift, and showing the hearers that it was possible for them also to receive the Spirit. See, how these people were instructed both by deeds and by words, and yet they paid no heed, that their condemnation might be just. For to this end did God suffer the Apostles to be brought to trial, that both their adversaries might be instructed, and all might learn, and that the Apostles might be invigorated to boldness of speech.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 13</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Of what things are we witnesses? Of His having promised forgiveness and repentance: for the Resurrection indeed was acknowledged, now. But that He giveth forgiveness, both we are witnesses, and so is the Holy Ghost, Who would not have come down, unless sins had been first remitted: so that this is an indisputable proof.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 13</i></p><p><b>Oecumenius</b>: That there was mercy, because he promised repentance. For the resurrection was therefore already confessed.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"fe4cf30edb1a491d4252e3c39f12aad5631ec5fd19d9594a04f690ab748df769","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3172,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"9f5d7465887360d95e11e43dc6440b10b706794681ab93f596521b0730062d86","translator":null,"work":null}