{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2746","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":18,"chapter_to":18,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":13,"verse_to":13},"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>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Saying, This fellow seduceth men contrary to the law to worship God. And when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said: If indeed it were any wrong-doing or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you. But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters. And he drave them from the judgment-seat.\" This Gallio seems to me to have been a sensible man. Thus observe, when these had said, \"Against the law he seduceth men to worship God,\" he \"cared for none of these things\": and observe how he answers them: \"If indeed it were\" any matter affecting the city, \"any wrong-doing or wicked lewdness,\" etc. And observe how prudent he is: for he does not say straightway, I care not, but, \"If,\" says he, \"it were a matter of wrong-doing or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you; but if it be a question of doctrine and words and of your law, see ye to it, for I do not choose to be a judge of such matters.\" He taught them that not such are the matters which crave a judicial sentence, but they do all things out of order. And he does not say, It is not my duty, but, \"I do not choose,\" that they may not trouble him again. Thus Pilate said in the case of Christ, \"Take ye Him, and judge him according to your law.\" But they were just like men drunken and mad.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 39</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"69c509ee8b75adcaccc24748cbcc5b3d30597e9ad2e1159d01fd0af2335109c2","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2746,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"7c2863b661277bc06f2f752eec028d4875a3d956d4686a20ff026a9e8c7345e8","translator":null,"work":null}