Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Acts 19:10

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 11, page 340, footnote 1 (Image)

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

The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans (HTML)

Homily I on Rom. i. 1, 2. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1195 (In-Text, Margin)

... it was not by having toiled much and labored that we had this dignity allotted to us, but we received grace, and the successful result is a part of the heavenly gift. “For obedience to the faith.” So it was not the Apostles that achieved it, but grace that paved the way before them. For it was their part to go about and preach, but to persuade was of God, Who wrought in them. As also Luke saith, that “He opened their heart” (Acts xvi. 14); and again, To whom it was given to hear the word of God.[Acts 19:10] “To obedience;” he says not, to questioning and parade (κατασκευὴν) of argument but “to obedience.” For we were not sent, he means, to argue, but to give those things which we had trusted to our hands. For when ...