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Pentecost, El Greco

Acts 13:12

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Acts 13:12 (WEB)

Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

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Augustine of Hippo

  • “And yet, even that “least of the apostles,” by whose tongue Thou soundest out these words, when Paulus the proconsul—his pride overcome by the apostle’s warfare—was made to pass under the easy yoke of Thy Christ, and became a provincial of the great King,—he also, instead of…” — editor's note: Acts. xiii. 12.

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  • “Thus we say, I will see thee “paulo post,” i.e. after a little while.” — editor's note: So Serm. ci. 1; clxviii. 7; cclxxix. 5; cccxv. 7; Lib. de Sp. et Litt. vii. sec. 12. But Confess. viii. 4, sec. 9, it is remarked, without reference to the…

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Tertullian

  • “Smitten were both Ananias and Elymas—Ananias with death, Elymas with blindness—in order that by this very fact it might be proved that Christ had had the power of doing even such (miracles).” — editor's note: Acts xiii. 6–12.

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