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Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles

St. John Chrysostom · c. 400

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St. John Chrysostom preached on Acts in Constantinople, after he became archbishop there. He follows the apostles from the Ascension and Pentecost to St. Paul in Rome.

He loved the first Christians of Jerusalem, who had “one heart and one soul,” and holds them up to his own flock again and again.

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From the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, first series, vol. 11 (1889), edited by Philip Schaff.

This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.

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