Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Acts 20:11

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 98, footnote 13 (Image)

Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen

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On Modesty. (HTML)

Of the Difference Between Discipline and Power, and of the Power of the Keys. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 970 (In-Text, Margin)

... against Himself, and against His temple? For, as far as you are concerned, such as are chargeable with offence against you personally, you are commanded, in the person of Peter, to forgive even seventy times sevenfold. And so, if it were agreed that even the blessed apostles had granted any such indulgence (to any crime) the pardon of which (comes) from God, not from man, it would be competent (for them) to have done so, not in the exercise of discipline, but of power. For they both raised the dead,[Acts 20:9-12] which God alone (can do), and restored the debilitated to their integrity, which none but Christ (can do); nay, they inflicted plagues too, which Christ would not do. For it did not beseem Him to be severe who had come to suffer. Smitten were both ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 1, page 268, footnote 8 (Image)

Augustine: Prolegomena: St. Augustine's Life and Work, Confessions, Letters

Letters of St. Augustin (HTML)

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CCEL Footnote 1586 (In-Text, Margin)

... bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.” Afterwards, when he had come down from the supper chamber where they had been gathered together, that he might restore the young man who, overpowered with sleep, had fallen from the window and was taken up dead, the Scripture states further concerning the apostle: “When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.”[Acts 20:11] Far be it from us to accept this as affirming that the apostles were accustomed to fast habitually on the Lord’s day. For the day now known as the Lord’s day was then called the first day of the week, as is more plainly seen in the Gospels; for the ...