ACC ~ Acts 5 v17

DEJECTION AND GLADNESS INTERWOVEN. CHRYSOSTOM: Look how their life is woven. First there was dejection because Christ was taken from them; then came joy through the descent of the Spirit; then dejection again because of the scoffers; then joy because of the believers and the sign; then dejection again because of the imprisonment, followed by joy in the result of their defense. And here again both dejection and joy: joy because they were well-known and God made revelations to them, dejection because they made away with some of them. Again, joy from their success and dejection because of the high priest. And the same pattern could be seen throughout. HOMILIES ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 12.

WHO ARE THE SADDUCEES? BEDE: Therefore “the Sadducees, whose name is interpreted as ‘righteous’ for they claim to be what they are not” (as we read below), entirely denied the resurrection of the body and said that the soul perishes with the flesh. Indeed, they did not even believe “that there are any angels or spirits, and accepting only the five books of Moses, they scorned the honoring of the prophets.” COMMENTARY ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 5.17.

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