Acts 8:36 (WEB)
As they went on the way, they came to some water; and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”
Fathers and councils · 8
Jerome
“We shall see the fountain in which the eunuch was immersed by Philip.” — editor's note: Acts viii. 36.
Read the whole comment“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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Gregory of Nazianzus
“I am Philip; do you be Candace’s Eunuch.” — editor's note: Acts viii. 36.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Immediately he went down with him into the water.”” — editor's note: Acts viii. 36, etc.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Then said Philip, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.”” — editor's note: Acts viii. 36, 37.
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