John Chrysostom, on Acts 20:26

“Wherefore I take you to witness this day, that I am clear from the blood of all men;”

“Do you mark how he terrifies them, and troubled and afflicted as their souls are, how hard he rubs them? But it was necessary. "For I have not shunned," he says, "to declare unto you all the counsel of God." Why then, he who does not speak, has blood to answer for: that is, murder! Nothing could be more terrifying than this. He shows that they also, if they do it not, have blood to answer for. So, whereas he seems to be justifying himself, in fact he is terrifying them.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.