Acts 9:25 (WEB)
but his disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.
Fathers and councils · 6
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“…thou shalt glorify Me,” therefore the Apostle ought not to have fled, and to be let down by the wall in a basket that he might escape the hands of a pursuer, but should rather have waited to be taken, that, like the three children from the midst of the fires, the Lord might deliver him.” — editor's note: Acts ix. 25; 2 Cor. xi. 33
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John Chrysostom
“Either then one may say this, that the baskets on this last occasionwere greater than those used before,or if this were not so, lest the equality of the miracle should again cast them into forgetfulness, He rouses their…” — editor's note: σπυρδε. That the σπυρς was of large size would appear from Acts ix. 25, where this word is again used. Κφινο is the word commonly used by the LXX. for basket;…
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“In obedience to this teaching the divine Apostle escaped the violence of the governor of the city, and had no hesitation in speaking of the manner of his flight, but spoke of the basket, the wall, and the window, and boasted and glorified in the act.” — editor's note: The word in the text for basket is σαργάνη, a basket of twisted work (שֹרג) commonly rope—the word used by St. Paul himself in 2 Cor. xi. 33. In Acts ix. 25…
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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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Gregory of Nazianzus
“And the leavings after they were satisfied were in the first case twelve baskets full, and in the other seven baskets; neither, I imagine, without a reason or unworthy of the Spirit.” — editor's note: Different words are used here as in the New Testament for Baskets. The second implies a larger size; it is the word used for the “basket” in which St. Paul was…
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 35.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 35.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 35.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 35.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 35.