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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... Jew and Gentile under christological assumptions and not merely as a matter of genetics or race. Even in their harshest strictures against Judaizing threats to the gospel, they did not consider Jews as racially or genetically inferior ...
Volume 5 Francis Martin, Thomas C. Oden. Jews as racially or genetically inferior people, as modern anti-Semites are ... Jewish and Christian Traditions (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974); David C. Ford, “Men and Women in the Early ...
... Jews (Acts 18:4-5) even after repeating this principle for a second time (Acts 18:6; see 18:19; 19:8; 28:17). The criterion for Paul's action is not only Jewish rejection but also Paul's vocation as given to him by the risen Jesus (Acts ...
... Jews. Most reflect the prevailing Zeitgeist of the interpreter's own milieu.4 This is not surprising, since the best that can be said is that Luke, in common with the rest of the New Testament, seems to leave the question unresolved and ...
... Jews who crucified the Lord are to be reconciled to the church. Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles 1.16.13 1:18 The Death of Judas Judas's Death Was Fitting. Bede: [As an ancient writer says,] “The betrayer, out of his mind, found ...
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 |