Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Acts 22:3

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 6, page 122, footnote 5 (Image)

Augustine: Sermon on the Mount, Harmony of the Gospels, Homilies on the Gospels

The Harmony of the Gospels. (HTML)

Book II (HTML)

Of the Calling of the Apostles as They Were Fishing. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 832 (In-Text, Margin)

... thus: “And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there. And both Jesus was called and His disciples to the marriage.” Now, surely, if it was on this occasion that they believed on Him, as the evangelist tells us a little further on, they were not yet His disciples at the time when they were called to the marriage. This, however, is a mode of speech of the same kind with what is intended when we say that the Apostle Paul was born in Tarsus of Cilicia;[Acts 22:3] for certainly he was not an apostle at that period. In like manner are we told here that the disciples of Christ were invited to the marriage, by which we are to understand, not that they were already disciples, but only that they were to be His ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 14, page 363, footnote 5 (Image)

Chrysostom: Homilies on the Gospel of St. John and the Epistle to the Hebrews

The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews. (HTML)

Argument. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2668 (In-Text, Margin)

Why therefore, one might ask, as he was so learned in the law (for he was instructed in the law at the feet of Gamaliel,[Acts 22:3] and had great zeal in the matter, and was especially able to confound them in this respect)—why did not God send him to the Jews? Because on this very account they were more vehement in their enmity against him. “For they will not endure thee,” God says unto him; “But depart far hence to the Gentiles, for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.” Whereupon he says, “Yea, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every ...