ACC ~ Acts 25 v11

PAUL DOES NOT TEMPT GOD. CHRYSOSTOM: Someone might ask, “Why is it that when [Paul] heard ‘You must testify about me in Rome,’ he did this, as if he did not believe?” God forbid! He did this not because he did not believe but because he believed very strongly, for it would have been the action of one who is tempting God to be bold on account of that declaration, to plunge himself into ten thousand dangers and to say, “Let’s see if God can deliver me even so.” Paul did not do this but made use of all that was in himself, entrusting everything to God. HOMILIES ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 51.

TO ROME. BEDE: [Paul] appealed to Caesar and hastened to Rome so that he could pursue [his] preaching longer, and from there, with many believers and crowned by all, he might go to Christ. COMMENTARY ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 25.11.

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