ACC ~ Acts 26 v24

TRUE MADNESS. BEDE: [Festus] reckoned it insanity that a man in chains, put in the position of defending himself, would deliver a discourse not about the false charges with which he was assailed from without but rather about private knowledge that he interiorly gloried in; and that he would review all the wonders of the revelation by which he had been changed from a persecutor into an apostle; moreover that in the style and vigor of public address he would discuss the resurrection of the dead revealed by our Redeemer’s will. Truly, however, just as it was foolish madness for the prodigal son to forsake his father and feed the pigs, so also it was “spiritual, that is, true madness, of which the apostle spoke [when he said], ‘For if we were out of our mind, it was for God; if we are sane, it is for you.’” And, in agreement with this the psalmist sang, “Happy the one whose hope is the name of the Lord and who has no regard for vanities and false insanities.”COMMENTARY ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 26.24.

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