Anf-03 vi.iv.xxv Pg 4
Acts ii. 1–4, 14, 15.
Peter, on the day on which he experienced the vision of Universal Community,8926 8926 Communitatis omnis (Oehler). Mr. Dodgson renders, “of every sort of common thing.” Perhaps, as Routh suggests, we should read “omnium.”
(exhibited) in that small vessel,8927 8927 Vasculo. But in Acts it is, σκεῦός τι ὡς ὀθόνην μεγάλην [Small is here comparatively used, with reference to Universality of which it was the symbol.]
had ascended into the more lofty parts of the house, for prayer’s sake “at the sixth hour.”8928 8928
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxix Pg 13
Zech. ix. 15, 16 (Septuagint).
etc. And that you may not suppose that these predictions refer to such sufferings as await them from so many wars with strangers,5026 5026 Allophylis.
consider the nature (of the sufferings). In a prophecy of wars which were to be waged with legitimate arms, no one would think of enumerating stones as weapons, which are better known in popular crowds and unarmed tumults. Nobody measures the copious streams of blood which flow in war by bowlfuls, nor limits it to what is shed upon a single altar. No one gives the name of sheep to those who fall in battle with arms in hand, and while repelling force with force, but only to those who are slain, yielding themselves up in their own place of duty and with patience, rather than fighting in self-defence. In short, as he says, “they roll as sacred stones,” and not like soldiers fight. Stones are they, even foundation stones, upon which we are ourselves edified—“built,” as St. Paul says, “upon the foundation of the apostles,”5027 5027
Anf-01 v.xvi.i Pg 8
Eccl. ii. 25 (after LXX.); Zech. ix. 17.
Give attention to reading,1273 1273
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 2
VERSE (13) - :15 1Sa 1:14 Job 32:19 So 7:9 Isa 25:6 Zec 9:15,17; 10:7
