Acts 28:2 (WEB)
The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the present rain and because of the cold.
Fathers and councils · 3
Gregory of Nyssa
“For if (says he) you say that they are eternal, you will be Greeks, and Valentinians, and uninstructed: and if you say that they are generate, you will no longer be able to ascribe ungeneracy to God.” — editor's note: βάρβαροι here being not opposed to “Greeks” must imply mere inability to speak aright: amongst those who claimed to use Catholic language another “barbarism,”…
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Tertullian
“The law prohibits the gods of the nations from being named, not of course that we are not to pronounce their names, the speaking of which common intercourse extorts from us: for this must very frequently be said, “You…” — editor's note: Ex. xxiii. 13. [St. Luke, nevertheless, names Castor and Pollux, Acts xxviii. 2., on our author’s principle.]
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Basil the Great
“Or, on the contrary, shall it smite us with amazement at once at the mighty power and love to man of the Saviour, in that He both endured to suffer with us in our infirmities, and was able to come down to our weakness?” — editor's note: φιλανθρωπία occurs twice in the N.T. (Acts xxviii. 2, and Titus iii. 4) and is in the former passage rendered by A.V. “kindness,” in the latter by “love to…
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Cross-references · 8
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 20.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 20.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 20.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 20.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 20.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 20.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 20.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 20.