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Acts 20:31 (WEB)
Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

Fathers and councils · 3

Cyprian of Carthage, Epistles Letter 5
“…by deacons or by presbyters, but cause that, by the wicked and evil characters of a few, the honourable glories of many and good confessors are tarnished; whom they ought to fear, lest, being condemned by their testimony and judgment, they be excluded from their fellowship.” — editor's note: [“Whence hath it tares?” Ans.: “An enemy hath done this.” See Matt. xiii. 27; Acts xx. 29–31.]
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 6
“Therefore also with regard to Paul, that he wept, that he did so three years night and day,both he hath said of himself, and others say this of him; but that he laughed, neither hath he said himself anywhere, neither hath so much as one other of the…” — editor's note: Acts xx. 31; comp. v. 37.
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Hippolytus of Rome, The Refutation of All Heresies IX.1Book IX
“…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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