Acts 7:51 (WEB)
“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
Fathers and councils · 8
Cyril of Jerusalem
“And having by his wise defence confuted the Jews, those stiffnecked men, uncircumcised in heart and ears, ever resisting the Holy Ghost, he beheld the heavens opened, and saw the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.” — editor's note: Ib. vii. 51.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XIII.3Conference XIII
“…to follow day by day the grace of God which is drawing us, or else if we resist with “a stiff neck,” and (to use the words of Scripture) “uncircumcised ears,” we shall deserve to hear the words of Jeremiah: “Shall he that falleth, not rise again? and he that is turned away, shall he not turn again?” — editor's note: Acts vii. 51.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Again, to show that the sovereignty of the Father and of the Son is one and the same, he prayed again, saying, “Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.”” — editor's note: Acts vii. 51.
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John Chrysostom
“And this again he shows not from the New [Testament], but from the prophets, bringing forward from times of old the strongest testimony, that it [the old system] comes to an end, and ceases, and that they do all in vain, “alway resisting the Holy Ghost.” ( Acts vii. 51.)” — the author cites it
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Basil the Great
“…the first fruits of the martyrs, when he reproaches the people for their rebellion and disobedience; “you do always,” he says, “resist the Holy Ghost;” and again Isaiah,—“They vexed His Holy Spirit, therefore He was turned to be their enemy;” and in another passage, “the house of Jacob angered the Spirit of…” — editor's note: Acts vii. 51.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: who have received the Law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.”” — editor's note: Acts vii. 51–53
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Read the whole comment“…would have them consumed at once,—but when the stones thrown from their hands reached him, with fixed knee he saith, “Lord, lay not this sin to their charge.”” — editor's note: Acts vii. 51–59.
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Cross-references · 6
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIII.3.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIII.3.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIII.3.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIII.3.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIII.3.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XIII.3.