Acts 9:15 (WEB)
But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
Catechism · 1
“The Apostle speaks here of the living tradition of the Resurrection which he had learned after his conversion at the gates of Damascus.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Acts 9:3-18.
Fathers and councils · 19
Irenaeus of Lyons
“For I will show him, from this time, how great things he must suffer for My name’s sake.”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 15, 16.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
“In addition to these, Paul, that “chosen vessel,” “not of men neither through men, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ himself and of God the Father who raised him from the dead,” was appointed an apostle, being made worthy of the call by a vision and by a voice which was uttered in a revelation from heaven.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 15.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis III.3Book III
“…am of opinion that there is a certain limit to the powers of human nature, although there may be a Paul, of whom it is said, “He is a chosen vessel unto Me;” or a Peter, against whom the gates of hell do not prevail; or a Moses, the friend of God: yet not one of them could sustain, without destruction to himself,…” — editor's note: Acts ix. 15.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…was grievously persecuting those who had become believers in Christ, did Christ call that man [by a voice] from heaven, and made him His disciple and apostle.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 1–30.
Read the whole comment“He, the least, made great, not by himself, but by Him whom he once persecuted, was sent to the Gentiles, from a robber become a shepherd, from a wolf a sheep.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 15.
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Jerome
“If, then, the apostle, who was a chosen vessel separated unto the gospel of Christ, by reason of the pricks of the flesh and the allurements of vice keeps under his body and brings it into subjection, lest…” — editor's note: Acts ix. 15.
Read the whole comment“If Paul, that ravening wolf, that little Benjamin, is blinded in a trance, it is that he may receive his sight, and may be led, by the sudden horror of surrounding darkness, to call Him Lord Whom before he persecuted as man.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 3–18.
Read the whole comment“Abraham, Moses, and Isaiah, Peter, James, and John, Paul, the “chosen vessel,” and even the Son of God Himself have all died; and are we vexed when a soul leaves its earthly tenement?” — editor's note: Acts ix. 15.
Read the whole comment“Paul, too, the “chosen vessel,” who in his preaching has fully maintained the doctrine of the gospel, instructs us that man is made in the image and after the likeness of God.” — editor's note: Acts. ix. 15.
Read the whole comment“But why should I confine my allusions to the men of this world, when the Apostle Paul, the chosen vessel the doctor of the Gentiles, who could boldly say: “Do ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me?” knowing that he really had within him that greatest of…” — editor's note: Acts ix. 15.
Read the whole comment“The apostle Paul, that chosen vessel framed out of a persecutor, though last in the apostolic order is first in merit.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 15.
Read the whole comment“So speaks the “chosen vessel” and the words are brought out from his treasure who could boldly say: “Do ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me?”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 15.
Read the whole comment“The chosen vessel who had Christ’s name ever on his lips kept under his body and brought it into subjection.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 15.
Read the whole comment“Therefore the chosen vessel declares that concerning virgins he has no commandment of the Lord.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 15.
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Tertullian
“That point excepted, he had sufficiently learnt and believed “the Nazarene” to be “the Lord, the Son of God.”” — editor's note: See Acts ix. 1–31.
Read the whole comment“…the instrumentality of a pen: not to steep, to wit, Paul, the “apostle of Christ,” the “teacher of the nations in faith and verity,” the “vessel of election,” the founder of Churches, the censor of discipline, (in the guilt of) levity so great as that he should either have condemned rashly one whom he was presently…” — editor's note: Acts ix. 15.
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Ambrose of Milan
“…and gather together the Church, as you find it said by the Lord Jesus to Ananias: “Go, for he is a chosen vessel unto Me to bear My name before all nations.”” — editor's note: Acts ix. 15.
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Leo the Great
“But O ungodliest of men, “thou seed of Chanaan and not of Juda,” and no longer “a vessel of election,” but “a son of perdition” and death, thou didst think the devil’s instigations would profit thee better, so that,…” — editor's note: Apocrypha, Hist. of Susanna, v. 56: said by Daniel to one of the two elders; cf. also Acts ix. 15, and S. John xvii. 12.
Read the whole comment“Thither came also thy blessed brother-Apostle Paul, “the vessel of election,” and the special teacher of the Gentiles, and was associated with thee at a time when all innocence, all modesty, all freedom was in jeopardy under Nero’s rule.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 15.
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in Against Heresies III.15.
Cited together in Against Heresies III.15.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 82.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 82.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 82.