Acts 8:34 (WEB)
The eunuch answered Philip, “Who is the prophet talking about? About himself, or about someone else?”
Catechism · 1
“In particular Jesus' redemptive death fulfils Isaiah's prophecy of the suffering Servant.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Is 53:7-8 and Acts 8:32-35.
Fathers and councils · 5
Athanasius of Alexandria
“This understood that inquiring eunuch, when he thus besought Philip, ‘I pray thee, of whom doth the Prophet speak this? of himself, or of some other man?’ for he feared lest, expounding the lesson unsuitably to the person, he should wander from the right sense.” — editor's note: Acts viii. 34.
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Jerome
“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.
Read the whole comment“…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
“…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.
Read the whole comment“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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