ACC ~ Acts 13 v51

NO HURT TO THE DISCIPLES. CHRYSOSTOM: “But they shook off the dust from their feet against them,” he says, “and went to Iconium.” Here they used that terrible sign, which Christ enjoined, “If any do not receive you, shake off the dust from your feet.”But these did not do it lightly but because they were driven away by them. In no way did this hurt the disciples; on the contrary, all the more did they continue in the word, “And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.” For the suffering of the teacher does not check his boldness but makes the disciple more courageous. HOMILIES ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 30.

DUST OF THEIR FEET. BEDE: According to the commandment in the Gospel, dust was shaken off from their feet in testimony of their labor, because they entered into their city, and the apostolic preaching reached all the way to them [the Antiochenes]. Alternatively, the dust was shaken off so that they would take nothing, not even a thing so basic to life, from those who had rejected the gospel. COMMENTARY ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 13.51.

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