Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Acts 19:31

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 9, page 427, footnote 6 (Image)

Chrysostom: On the Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises, Select Homilies and Letters, Homilies on the Statutes

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CCEL Footnote 1556 (In-Text, Margin)

6. At last having loaded the culprits with chains, and bound them with iron, they sent them away to the prison through the midst of the forum. Men that had kept their studs of horses, who had been presidents of the games,[Acts 19:31] who could reckon up a thousand different offices of distinction which they had held, had their goods confiscated, and seals might be seen placed upon all their doors. Their wives also being ejected from their parents’ home, each had literally to play the part of Job’s wife. For they went “wandering from house to house and from place to place, seeking a lodging.” And this it was not ...

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