ACC ~ Acts 8 v3

EMBOLDENED BY STEPHEN’S MURDER. CHRYSOSTOM: Great was [Saul’s] frenzy: that he was alone, that he even entered into houses; for indeed he was ready to give his life for the law. “Arresting,” it says, “men and women”: mark both the confidence, and the violence and the frenzy. All that fell into his hands, he put to all manner of ill-treatment, for in consequence of the recent murder, he had become more daring. HOMILIES ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 18.