Acts 2:3 (WEB)
Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.
Catechism · 2
The Sacrament of Confirmation
“On several occasions Christ promised this outpouring of the Spirit, a promise which he fulfilled first on Easter Sunday and then more strikingly at Pentecost.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 20:22; Acts 2:1-14.
"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"
“In the form of tongues "as of fire," the Holy Spirit rests on the disciples on the morning of Pentecost and fills them with himself” — Catechism footnote: Acts 2:3-4.
Fathers and councils · 30
John Damascene
“But to the holy Apostles He came down in the form of fire: for He is God, and God is a consuming fire.” — editor's note: Greg. Naz., Orat. 44: Acts ii. 3.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“…by the sacred apostles, and those who were with them, when there ‘appeared unto them tongues parting asunder, like as of fire, and sat upon each one of them.’” — editor's note: Acts ii. 3.
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Augustine of Hippo
“And He had already sent Him, but I knew it not; He had sent Him, because He was now magnified, rising again from the dead, and ascending into heaven.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 1–4.
Read the whole comment“There came suddenly a sound from heaven, as it had been the rushing of a mighty wind, and there appeared cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 3.
Read the whole comment“He arose from the dead: and from the day of our Lord’s Passover, as from that of the slaying of the Paschal lamb, fifty days are counted; and the Holy Ghost descended, now in the fulness of love, not in the punishment of fear.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 1–4.
Read the whole comment“…that no man may say, will that tongue believe? will the barbarians believe? what is the meaning of the Holy Spirit having appeared in the fiery tongues, except that there is no tongue so hard that it cannot be softened by that fire?” — editor's note: Acts ii. 3.
Read the whole comment“Believers in Him were set on fire, they received the flame of love: and for this reason when the Holy Spirit itself had been sent to the Apostles, It thus appeared: “cloven tongues, like as of fire.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 3.
Read the whole comment“Whence those hundred and twenty, who were together in one place after the resurrection of the Lord, and His ascension into heaven, on whom when gathered into one place the Holy Spirit descended on the day of Pentecost, sent down from heaven, sent, even as He was promised?” — editor's note: Acts ii. 1–4.
Read the whole comment““Sit ye still in the city, because I send my promise upon you.”” — editor's note: Acts i. 15; ii. 1–12.
Read the whole comment“…Pentecost a sound came suddenly from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and cloven tongues like as of fire were seen upon them, and it sat upon each of them.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 2–4
Read the whole comment“…them,” he says, “cloven tongues, like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them; and they began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance; in order to show that the Spirit was manifested by that fire, as by the dove; yet we cannot call the Holy Spirit both God and a dove, or both God and fire, in…” — editor's note: Acts ii. 3, 4
Read the whole comment“And in that very coming of His, which we read of in the Acts of the Apostles, there appeared cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them: which agrees with Exodus, where it is written, “And Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire;” and a little after,…” — editor's note: Acts. ii. 1–4
Read the whole comment“…form like a dove, and in the tongues like as of fire, which appeared with a sound from heaven on the day of Pentecost, after the ascension of the Lord, it was not the Word of God Himself by His own substance, in which He is equal and eternal with the Father, nor the Spirit of the Father and of the Son by His…” — editor's note: Acts ii. 1–4
Read the whole comment“For the veriest of madmen would not say, that it was one Spirit which He gave when He breathed on them, and another which He sent after His ascension.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 1–4
Read the whole comment“But with respect to the sensible showing of the Holy Spirit, whether by the shape of a dove, or by fiery tongues, when the subjected and subservient creature by temporal motions and forms manifested His substance co-eternal with the Father and the Son, and alike with them…” — editor's note: Acts ii. 3
Read the whole comment“Therefore, were they to receive those Acts of the Apostles, in which the coming of the Holy Spirit is plainly set forth, they could not find how to say that it was interpolated.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 2, 3, 4
Read the whole comment“…neighbour as oneself, and when the Holy Spirit had been poured out, whom, at the end of ten days after His ascension, He sent from above, as He had promised, there were not wanting such acts of vengeance, although much more rarely than in the Old Testament.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 1–4.
Read the whole comment“Wherefore when He came it is said, “And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 3.
Read the whole comment“And the cloven tongues appeared to them as fire when the Holy Spirit came.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 3.
Read the whole comment“For the fact that the Holy Spirit appeared in bodily form, as a dove, was a sight begun and ended at the time: just as also, when He descended upon the disciples, there were seen upon them cloven tongues as of fire, which also sat upon every one of them.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 3.
Read the whole comment“And the 1 is added to show that there is one who is expressed by seven on account of His sevenfold operation; and we know that it was on the fiftieth day after our Lord’s ascension that the Holy Spirit was sent, for whom the disciples were commanded to wait according to the promise.” — editor's note: Acts i. 4; ii. 2–4.
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Tertullian
“…hour is demonstrated as an hour of prayer, about which hour it was that they who had received the initiatory gift of the Holy Spirit were held for drunkards; and the sixth, at which Peter went up on the roof; and the ninth, at which they entered the temple: why should we not understand that, with absolutely perfect…” — editor's note: Acts ii. 1–4, 13, 15.
Read the whole comment“The first infusion of the Holy Spirit into the congregated disciples took place at “the third hour.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 1–4, 14, 15.
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Ambrose of Milan
“In the Acts of the Apostles, also, when the Holy Spirit descended upon the apostles and those others who were waiting for the Promise of the Father, we read that tongues as of fire were distributed among them.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 3.
Read the whole comment“…the Spirit were borne with great vehemence, and it filled all the house where they were sitting, and there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 2, 3.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…razor, nor turn under our tongue labour and toil, but that we may speak the Wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden Wisdom, reverencing the fiery tongues.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 3.
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Leo the Great
“And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Holy Spirit gave them utterance.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 1–4.
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Gregory the Great
“For hence it is that the Holy Spirit sat upon the first pastors under the appearance of tongues (Acts ii. 3); because whomsoever He has filled, He himself at once makes eloquent.” — the author cites it
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Hippolytus of Rome
“This is the Spirit that was given to the apostles in the form of fiery tongues.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 3.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“And there appeared to them cloven tongues as if of fire, which also settled upon each of them; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 2–4.
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Cross-references · 21
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 25.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 25.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 75.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 75.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 75.
Cited together in Catechism §696.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 75.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.102.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.102.
Cited together in Catechism §696.
Cited together in Catechism §696.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 25.
Cited together in Catechism §696.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 25.
Cited together in Catechism §696.
Cited together in Catechism §696.
Cited together in Catechism §696.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 75.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 75.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 75.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 75.