Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Acts 19:37

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 11, page 369, footnote 2 (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 VI on Rom. ii. 17, 18. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1249 (In-Text, Margin)

... and they that were not entrusted with it were to imitate it exactly even without the original. And then after mentioning the advantages they had from God, he tells them of their failings, bringing forward what the prophets accused them of. “Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? Thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?”[Acts 19:37] For it was strictly forbidden them to touch any of the treasures upon the idols (so Field from the Vulg. “in the idol temples”) by reason of the defilement. But the tyranny of avarice, he says, has persuaded you (4 and mar. “us”) to trample this Law ...