ACC ~ Acts 9 v29

CONTENDING WITH GREEKS IN JERUSALEM AND JEWS IN DAMASCUS. BEDE: Note that he taught Greeks in Jerusalem and Jews in Damascus, which is a Gentile city, even though this should signify that Gentiles were to be included in the city of God and Jews were to fall into the faithlessness of the Gentiles, in accordance with what Isaiah said: “Lebanon shall be changed into Carmel, and Carmel shall be regarded as a wasteland.” COMMENTARY ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 9.29.

MAKING NO EXCUSES. CHRYSOSTOM: “But they,” it says, “went about to slay him.” This is a sign of his energy and triumphant victory and of their exceeding annoyance at what had happened. Fearing that the issue should be the same as in the case of Stephen, they sent him to Caesarea. For it says, “When the brothers were aware of this, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him forth to Tarsus,” at the same time to preach, and likely to be more in safety, as being in his own country. But observe, I pray you, how far it is from being the case that everything is done by grace [particular acts of providence]. Note how, on the contrary, God does in many things leave them to manage for themselves by their own wisdom and in a human way, so to cut off the excuse of idle people, for if it was so in the case of Paul, much more in theirs. HOMILIES ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 21.

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