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Chapter
LXXI.—Success.
So great grace of His power did the Holy Spirit
show on that day, that all, from the least to the greatest, with one
voice confessed the Lord; and not to delay you with many words, within
seven days, more than ten thousand men, believing in God, were baptized
and consecrated by sanctification: so that Theophilus,885
| 885 [It is possible
that this character was suggested to the writer by the well-known
Theophilus of Antioch. But, in view of the evident anachronism,
it seems more probably that he had in mind the “Theophilus”
named in the prologue to the Gospel of Luke (i.
1–; 4) and in Acts i. 1.—R.] | who was more exalted than all the men
of power in that city, with all eagerness of desire consecrated the
great palace of his house under the name of a church, and a chair was
placed in it for the Apostle Peter by all the people; and the whole
multitude assembling daily to hear the word, believed in the healthful
doctrine which was avouched by the efficacy of
cures.
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