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Pentecost, El Greco

Acts 2:40

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Acts 2:40 (WEB)

With many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

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Leo the Great

  • “They then that received his word were baptized, and there were added in that day about three thousand.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 37–41.

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  • “For to you is the promise, and to your sons, and to all that are afar off, whomsoever our Lord God has called,” and soon after the Scripture goes on to say: “they therefore that received his word were baptized, and there were added on that day about 3,000 souls.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 37–41.

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Jerome

  • “Wherefore I beseech you, dearly beloved, and, casting myself down at your feet, I entreat you to grant to me and to yourself this one prayer, that you would save yourself, as it is written, “from an untoward generation.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 40.

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  • “…salvation in words such as these: “Grant to me and to yourself the favour of your salvation; save yourself, as it is written, from this crooked generation, and forsake the heresy of Origen, and all heresies, dearly beloved.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 40.

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