Acts 4:35 (WEB)
and laid them at the apostles’ feet; and distribution was made to each, according as anyone had need.
Fathers and councils · 11
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XVIII.5Conference XVIII
“And again: “For neither was there any among them that lacked; for as many as possessed fields or houses, sold them and brought the price of the things that they sold and laid them before the feet of the Apostles: and distribution was made to every man as he had need.”” — editor's note: Acts iv. 32; ii. 45; iv. 34, 35.
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Tertullian
“And money they certainly had from the prices of lands which were laid down at their feet, there being, without a doubt, many of the rich among those who believed—men, and also women, who were wont, too, to minister to their comfort.” — editor's note: Acts iv. 34, 35.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…they had been found at hand, they so believed as that they sold all that they had, and the price of their goods before the feet of the Apostles they laid.” — editor's note: Acts iv. 34, 35.
Read the whole comment“For they then laid aside like as it were fleeces the burdens of the world, when before the feet of the Apostles they laid the prices of their sold goods, going up from that Laver, concerning which the apostle Peter doth admonish them, when they were troubled because they had shed the blood of Christ, and he…” — editor's note: Acts iv. 34, 35.
Read the whole comment“But many, so as not to make a place for the Lord, seek their own things, love their own things, delight in their own power, are greedy for their private interests.” — editor's note: Acts iv. 4, 32, 35.
Read the whole comment“All were from thence, and they first dwelt together in unity; who sold all they had, and laid the price of their goods at the Apostles’ feet, as is read in the Acts of the Apostles.” — editor's note: Acts iv. 34, 35.
Read the whole comment“…sold them, and brought the prices of them, and laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need,” are we not to understand that such distribution was made to this disciple of what was needful, that there was also added to it the portion of the blessed Mary,…” — editor's note: Acts iv. 32–35.
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Jerome
“Then, as you know, believers sold their possessions and brought the prices of them and laid them down at the apostles’ feet: a symbolic act designed to shew that men must trample on covetousness.” — editor's note: Acts iv. 34, 35.
Read the whole comment“…price of them at the apostles’ feet (to shew that money ought to be trampled underfoot) and “distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.”” — editor's note: Acts iv. 34, 35.
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Basil the Great
“…should leave it in the hands of the person entrusted with the duty of managing the affairs of the poor; and he proved the point from the acts of the apostles, because they sold their property and brought and laid it at the feet of the apostles, and by them it was distributed to each as every man had need.” — editor's note: Acts iv. 35.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…custom into the Lord’s House, he communed with himself and reflected as he walked how the Apostles left all and followed the Saviour; and how they in the Acts sold their possessions and brought and laid them at the Apostles’ feet for distribution to the needy, and what and how great a hope was laid up for them in…” — editor's note: Acts iv. 35.
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Cross-references · 9
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XVIII.5.
Cited together in Letters Letter 150.
Cited together in Life of Antony §2.
Cited together in Letters Letter 150.
Cited together in Life of Antony §2.
Cited together in Letters Letter 150.
Cited together in Letters Letter 150 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Letters Letter 150.
Cited together in Letters Letter 150 and 1 other place.