“Seest thou how God permits trials, and by them stirs up and awakens the disciples, and makes them more energetic? Then let us not sink down under trials: for He Himself will "also make the way of escape, that we may be able to bear them." Nothing so makes friends, and rivets them so firmly, as affliction: nothing so f…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on Acts 42
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40For we are in danger to be called in question for this day’s uproar, there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.
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38Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another.
39But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.
— Acts 19:40 —
41And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.