Acts: Volume 5Francis Martin, Thomas C. Oden InterVarsity Press, 2014 M02 19 - 368 pages The Acts of the Apostles—or more in keeping with the author's intent, the Acts of the Ascended Lord—is part two of Luke's story of "all that Jesus began to do and teach." In it he recounts the expansion of the church as its witness spread from Jerusalem to all of Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth. While at least forty early church authors commented on Acts, the works of only three survive in their entirety—John Chrysostom's Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles, Bede the Venerable's Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles and a long Latin epic poem by Arator. In this Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture volume, substantial selections from the first two of these appear with occasional excerpts from Arator alongside many excerpts from the fragments preserved in J. A. Cramer's Catena in Acta SS. Apostolorum. Among the latter we find selections from Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa, Ephrem the Syrian, Didymus the Blind, Athanasius, Jerome, John Cassian, Augustine, Ambrose, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Theodoret of Cyr, Origen, Cyril of Jerusalem, Cyril of Alexandria, Cassiodorus, and Hilary of Poitiers, some of which are here translated into English for the first time. As readers, we find these early authors transmit life to us because their faith brought them into living and experiential contact with the realities spoken of in the sacred text. |
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... Bede: Everywhere creation offers obedient service to its Creator. The stars indicated his birth;29 clouds overshadowed him in his suffering, received him in his ascension, and they will accompany him when he returns for the judgment.30 ...
... Bede and Arator, pay little attention to the historical sense of this passage. Both are fascinated by the “sabbath day's journey.” That the sabbath referred to life in heaven is not an uncommon interpretation in the Fathers,2 and here ...
... (Bede). Both Bede and Augustine have the narrative of salvation in the background, and so we see Bede using a typological method of reading to explain change as a part of God's constant revelation of the true sacrifice of the body of ...
... Bede: The apostle Peter was apprehensive about continuing with the number eleven [of apostles], “for every sin is an eleven, because when one does wicked things he goes beyond the commandments of the decalog.”9 Hence, because no ...
... (Bede, Cyril) and the significance of the presence of this gift in showing forth the universality of the church (Augustine, Leo, Cyril, Cassiodorus), though they show little curiosity about the precise description of this gift. Finally ...
Contents
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Early Christian Writers and the Documents Cited | 320 |
Biographical Sketches Short Descriptions of Select Anonymous Works | 325 |
Timeline of Writers of the Patristic Period | 349 |
Bibliography of Works in English Traslation | 362 |
AuthorsWritings Index | 367 |
Subject Index | 368 |
Scripture Index | 376 |
About the Editor | 381 |
Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture | 382 |
More Titles from InterVarsity Press | 383 |
Bibliography of Works in Original Languages | 356 |