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Acts 8:30 (WEB)
Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

Fathers and councils · 8

Athanasius of Alexandria, Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.15Festal Letters
“Not so did the eunuch in the Acts, for when he heard, ‘Understandest thou what thou readest?’ he was not ashamed to confess his ignorance, and implored to be taught.” — editor's note: Acts viii. 30.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 3
“Oh, if only the Lord Jesus Christ would suddenly transport me to you as Philip was transported to the eunuch, and Habakkuk to Daniel, with what a close embrace would I clasp your neck, how fondly would I press kisses upon that mouth which has so often joined with me of old in error or in wisdom.” — editor's note: Acts viii. 26–30.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 53
“In the Acts of the Apostles the holy eunuch (or rather “man” for so the scripture calls him) when reading Isaiah he is asked by Philip “Understandest thou what thou readest?”, makes answer:—“How can I except some man should guide me?”” — editor's note: Acts viii. 30, 31.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 69
“By the reading of the prophet the eunuch of Candace the queen of Ethiopia is made ready for the baptism of Christ.” — editor's note: Acts viii. 27–38.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 108
“…type of the Gentiles, the Ethiopian eunuch, who in spite of the prophet changed his skin and whilst he read the old testament found the fountain of the gospel.” — editor's note: Acts viii. 27–39.
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Tertullian, On Baptism Chapter 3
“…Tiber, unless withal the eunuch whom Philip baptized in the midst of his journeys with chance water, derived (therefrom) more or less of salvation than others.” — editor's note: Acts viii. 26–40.
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Tertullian, On Baptism Chapter 17
“If Philip so “easily” baptized the chamberlain, let us reflect that a manifest and conspicuous evidence that the Lord deemed him worthy had been interposed.” — editor's note: Comp. Acts viii. 26–40.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.10Book I
“And as the receiving of good is abolished if we abolish the doing of good; so obedience and faith are abolished when neither the command, nor one to expound the command, is taken along with us.” — editor's note: [Acts viii. 30.]
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