Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Joshua 2:15

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 11, page 132, footnote 2 (Image)

Chrysostom: Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the Romans

A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles (HTML)

Homily XX on Acts ix. 10, 12. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 485 (In-Text, Margin)

... the five thousand, the three thousand, than everything, in short. And observe him, how he is delivered, not by (miraculous) grace, but by man’s wisdom—not as the apostles were—(ἐκεἴνοι, ch. v. 19) that thou mayest learn the energetic (ἀρετὴν) character of the man, how he shines even without miracles. “Then the disciples took him by night,” that the affair might not be suspected, “and let him down by the wall in a basket.”[Joshua 2:15] (v. 25.) What then? having escaped such a danger, does he flee? By no means, but goes where he kindled them to greater rage.