ACC ~ Acts 16 v40

THE APOSTLES’ HUMILITY. AMMONIUS: How great was their modesty and charity! Paul and Silas would not have put up with leaving, even though they had been dismissed by the magistrates, if they had not been able to go to the poor woman and the others, whom they called brothers, and made themselves their equals. CATENA ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 16.40.

WORKS OF SUPERNATURAL GRACE. CHRYSOSTOM: They departed, not in obedience to the magistrates, but hastening to the work of preaching. For the city had been sufficiently benefited by the miracle. It was necessary that they remain no longer. For the miracle seems greater in the absence of those who worked it; it speaks louder by itself. The faith of the jailer was a voice in itself. What can equal this? He is put in chains and he loosens, though in chains, a twofold bond. He who put him in chains he releases by being in chains. Truly these are works of grace. HOMILIES ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 36.