Acts 9:17 (WEB)
Ananias departed and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
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 · 9
Cyril of Jerusalem
“Let godly Ananias come as a witness to what we say, he who in Damascus said to him, The Lord, even Jesus who appeared to thee in the way which thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mayest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 17.
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Ambrose of Milan
“And whereas He could Himself have restored to Saul the use of his sight, He nevertheless sent him to His disciple Ananias, that by his blessing Saul’s eyes might be restored, the sight of which he had lost.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 17.
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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.
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Jerome
“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“Paul, the persecutor of the church, who is in the morning the ravening wolf of Benjamin, in the evening “gave food,” that is yields himself up to the sheep Ananias.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 17. (Cf. Letter LXIX. § 6.)
Read the whole comment“Paul the persecutor of the church, that ravening wolf out of Benjamin, bows his head before Ananias one of Christ’s sheep, and only recovers his sight when he applies the remedy of baptism.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 17, 18. Comp. Letter LX. 8.
Read the whole comment“And didAnanias give him to Paul?” — editor's note: Acts ix. 17.
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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.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on Luke
“For Paul received the instruction of Ananias (Acts 9:17.) as it were a small grain, but planting it in his garden, he brought forth many good doctrines, in which they dwell who have high heavenly thoughts, as Dionysius, Hierotheus, and many others.” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 16
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.8.
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Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.8.
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 13:18–21 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 13:18–21 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 13:18–21 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 13:18–21 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.8.
Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.8.