Acts 5:23 Douay-Rheims

Saying: The prison indeed we found shut with all diligence, and the keepers standing before the doors; but opening it, we found no man within.

John Chrysostom

A.D. 347–407 Patristic

A twofold security this; as was the case at the sepulchre, where was both the seal, and the men to watch. See how they fought against God! Say, was this of man's doing, that happened to them? Who led them forth, when the doors were shut? How came they out, with the keepers standing before the door? Verily they must be mad or drunken to talk so. Here are men, whom neither prison, nor bonds, nor closed doors, had been able to keep in; and yet they expect to overpower them: such is their childish folly!

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A.D. 407 · on Acts 5:23 (Homily on Acts 13)

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