Acts 5:29

The Fourth Commandment

• §2242Article 4 · The Fourth CommandmentRead at vatican.va

  “"We must obey God rather than men":” — Catechism footnote: Acts 5:29.

"And in Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord"

• §450Article 2 · "And in Jesus Christ, His Only Son, Our Lord"Read at vatican.va

  “From the beginning of Christian history, the assertion of Christ's lordship over the world and over history has implicitly recognized that man should not submit his personal freedom in an absolute manner to any earthly power, but only to God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Caesar is not "the Lord".” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rev 11:15; Mk 12:17; Acts 5:29.

Athanasius of Alexandria

• Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.6Discourse III

  “And so the Blessed Apostles after Him from such words of His conceived so great a contempt of death, as not even to care for those who questioned them, but to answer, ‘We ought to obey God rather than men.’” — editor's note: Acts v. 29.

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Hippolytus of Rome

• Hippolytus of Rome, Against the Heresy of One Noetus

  “But if he will have us abandon the Gospel and give credence to his senselessness, he expends his labour in vain; for “we ought to obey God rather than men.”” — editor's note: Acts v. 29; iv. 19.

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Eusebius of Caesarea

• Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History V.24Book V

  “For those greater than I have said ‘We ought to obey God rather than man.’”” — editor's note: Acts v. 29.

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• Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History VII.11Book VII

  “But I answered him, neither unsuitably nor in many words: ‘We must obey God rather than men.’” — editor's note: Acts v. 29.

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Theodoret of Cyrus

• Theodoret of Cyrus, Letters Letter 79

  “We cannot fight against the apostolic decrees, for we remember the word of the Apostle which says, “We ought to obey God rather than men,” and more terrible to us than any of the pains of this life is the “judgment seat of Christ” the Lord, before whom we shall all stand to render an account of…” — editor's note: Acts v. 29

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Jerome

• Jerome, Letters Letter 88

  “Nor shall I hesitate, if needful, to incur odium with some, for we ought to please God rather than men: although indeed they have been much more forward to defend their heresy than I and others have been to attack it.” — editor's note: Acts v. 29.

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Basil the Great

• Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit Chapter 9

  “Against them it is right to reply in the words of the apostles, “We ought to obey God rather than men.”” — editor's note: Acts v. 29.

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• Romans 6:17

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 9.

• Romans 13:11

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 9.

• Romans 14:10

  Cited together in Letters Letter 79.

• 1 Corinthians 5:3

  Cited together in Church History VII.11.

• Ephesians 2:12

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 9.

• Colossians 2:14

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 9.

• 1 Thessalonians 1:9

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 9.

• 1 Timothy 1:10

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 9.

• 1 Timothy 6:20

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 9.

• Revelation 11:15

  Cited together in Catechism §450.

• Revelation 12:9

  Cited together in Letters Letter 88.

• Exodus 12:6

  Cited together in Church History V.24.

• Matthew 22:21

  Cited together in Catechism §2242.

• Matthew 28:19

  Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 9.

• Mark 12:17

  Cited together in Catechism §450.