Acts 20:28 (WEB)
Take heed, therefore, to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.
Catechism · 1
“They accordingly designated such men and then made the ruling that likewise on their death other proven men should take over their ministry."” — Catechism footnote: LG 20; cf. Acts 20:28; St. Clement of Rome, Ad Cor. 42, 44: PG 1, 291-300.
Fathers and councils · 8
Jerome
“You are not his to whom you have been born, but His to whom you have been born again, and who has purchased you at a great price with His own blood.” — editor's note: Acts xx. 28.
Read the whole comment“In the Acts of the Apostles Paul thus speaks to the priests of a single church: “Take heed unto yourselves and to all the flock, in the which the Holy Ghost hath made you bishops, to feed the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.”” — editor's note: Acts xx. 28, R.V.
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Tertullian
““But a ‘sheep’ properly means a Christian, and the Lord’s ‘flock’ is the people of the Church, and the ‘good shepherd’ is Christ; and hence in the ‘sheep’ we must understand a Christian who has erred from the Church’s ‘flock.’”” — editor's note: Comp. Acts xx. 28.
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“The blood of God.” — editor's note: See the last reference, and Acts xx. 28, where the mss. vary between Θεοῦ and Κυρίου.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Let us now learn more expressly what we have touched upon above, that the Holy Spirit entrusts the same office as the Father and the Son, and appoints the same persons; since Paul said: “Take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock in the which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to rule the Church of God.”” — editor's note: Acts xx. 28.
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John Cassian
“And yet it was said to the Ephesian elders: “Feed the Church of God which He has purchased with His own Blood.”” — editor's note: Acts xx. 28.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“…up in our own day, by which certain ignorant and presumptuous men have attempted to scatter abroad the Church, and have introduced the greatest confusion among all the faithful throughout the entire world.” — editor's note: [1 Cor. xi. 19. These terrible confusions were thus foretold. Note the remarkable feeling, the impassioned tone, of the Apostle’s warning in Acts xx. 28–31.]
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Ephrem the Syrian
“Thou art bought with the blood of God; thou art redeemed by the passion of Christ; for thy sake He suffered death, that thou mightest die to thy sins.” — editor's note: Acts xx. 28.
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Cross-references · 26
Cited together in To His Wife II.3.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies IX.1.
Cited together in Three Homilies Homily 2.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies IX.1.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Three Homilies Homily 2.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Three Homilies Homily 2.
Cited together in Three Homilies Homily 2.
Cited together in Three Homilies Homily 2.
Cited together in Three Homilies Homily 2.
Cited together in Three Homilies Homily 2.
Cited together in Three Homilies Homily 2.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VII.4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.
Cited together in Letters Letter 146.