ACC ~ Acts 2 v33

CHRIST RECEIVES AND POURS OUT THE SPIRIT. CHRYSOSTOM: “And having received the promise of the Holy Spirit.” This again is important. He speaks of “the promise,” because it was made before his passion. Observe how he now makes it all his, quietly making an important point. For if it was he who poured it out, it is of him that the prophet spoke above, “In the last days I will pour out my Spirit upon my servants, both men and women, and I will show portents in the heaven above.” Observe what Peter secretly inserted! … It also shows that the cross not only did not make him less but rendered him even more illustrious, seeing that formerly God promised it to him but now has given it. Alternatively, “the promise” refers to what he promised to us. He knew beforehand that it will come to pass and gave it to us greater after the resurrection. “He poured it out,” that is, not requiring worthiness, and not simply that, but indeed with abundance. HOMILIES ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 6.

THE PROMISE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. BEDE: [In reference to the Spirit whom] you see in the tongues of fire; [whom] you hear in our discourse. Indeed, by saying that “he received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, and he poured [the Spirit] forth, both natures of Christ are manifested, for he received [the Spirit] as a man and poured [him] forth as God.”COMMENTARY ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 2.33B.

THE LOWLY ONE IS EXALTED. THEODORET OF CYR: Who then was exalted? The lowly or the most high? And what is the lowly if it be not the human? And what is the most high save the divine? But God being most high needs no exaltation, and so the apostle says that the human is exalted, exalted that is in being “made both Lord and Christ.” Therefore the apostle does not mean by this term “he made” the everlasting existence of the Lord but the change of the lowly to the exalted that took place on the right hand of God. By this word he declares the mystery of religion, for when he says “by the right hand of God exalted” he plainly reveals the ineffable economy of the mystery that the right hand of God, which created all things, which is the Lord by whom all things were made and without whom nothing consists of things that were made, through the union lifted up to its own exaltation the manhood united to it. DIALOGUE 2.

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