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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... Chrysostom's homilies were delivered during Easter season of the year 400. They seem to have been taken down by a stenographer in rough form for eventual polishing by Chrysostom himself, but the tumultuous events of that time in his ...
... Chrysostom, Bede and Arator were made by Ms. Amy Rojek, and the Chrysostom passages finally selected were brought into a more colloquial English on the basis of the Greek text of Chrysostom's homilies supplied to us by Rev. Francis ...
... Chrysostom observes, Acts tell us what the “other Paraclete” said and did. 1:1 All That Jesus Began to Do and Teach The Advantage of Reading the Second Book. Chrysostom: To many people this book, both its content and its author, is so ...
... Chrysostom picks up the familiar theme of the power of speech given to uneducated men. 2:6 The Multitude Bewildered Devout People Perplexed. Chrysostom: Notice their piety: they do not pronounce judgment in haste but are perplexed. The ...
... Chrysostom accents the theme of the apostles' humility and that all power comes from God. Cassian and Cassiodorus join him in this second motif. Ammonius speaks of the twofold faith in God, and Chrysostom points out how sure the ...
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 |