Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Acts 4:28

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 12, page 178, footnote 4 (Image)

Leo the Great, Gregory the Great

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CCEL Footnote 1069 (In-Text, Margin)

... pleased that things should be recorded as if done which nothing could hinder from being done. And hence when the Apostles also, being full of the Holy Ghost, suffered the threats and cruelty of Christ’s enemies, they said to God with one consent, “For truly in this city against Thy holy Servant Jesus, Whom Thou hast anointed, Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel were gathered together to do what Thy hand and Thy counsel ordained to come to pass[Acts 4:27-28].” Did then the wickedness of Christ’s persecutors spring from God’s plan, and was that unsurpassable crime prefaced and set in motion by the hand of God? Clearly we must not think this of the highest ...