Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Acts 20:22

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 11, page 549, 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 XXX on Rom. xv. 25-27. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1655 (In-Text, Margin)

... generally of good deeds. For blessing is a name he very commonly gives to alms. As when he says, “As a blessing and not as covetousness.” (2 Cor. ix. 5.) And it was customary of old for the thing to be so called. But as he has here added “of the Gospel,” on this ground we assert that he speaks not of money only, but of all other things. As if he had said, I know that when I come I shall find you with the honor and freshness of all good deeds about you, and worthy of countless praises in the Gospel.[Acts 20:22] And this is a very striking mode of advice, I mean this way of forestalling their attention by encomiums. For when he entreats them in the way of advice, this is the mode of setting them right that he adopts.