Acts 18:25
This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, spoke, and taught diligently the things that are of Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Hic erat edoctus viam Domini : et fervens spiritu loquebatur, et docebat diligenter ea quæ sunt Jesu, sciens tantum baptisma Joannis.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- οὗτος ἦν κατηχημένος τὴν ὁδὸν τοῦ κυρίου, καὶ ζέων τῷ πνεύματι ἐλάλει καὶ ἐδίδασκεν ἀκριβῶς τὰ περὶ τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, ἐπιστάμενος μόνον τὸ βάπτισμα Ἰωάννου.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily XL on Acts xviii. 18
See how the Law was breaking up; see how they were bound by conscience. This, namely, was a Jewish custom, to shear their heads agreeably with a vow. But then there ought to be also a sacrifice ( ch. xxi. 26 ), which was not the case here. “Having yet tarried:” after the beating of Sosthenes. For it was necessary that he should yet tarry, and comfort them concerning these things. “He sailed for Syria.” Why does he desire again to come to Syria? It was there that “the disciples were ordered to be called Christians” ( ch. xi. 26 ): there, that he had been “commended to the grace of God” ( xiv. 26 ): there, that he had effected such things concerning the doctrine. “And with him Priscilla”, lo, a woman also, “and Aquila.” But these he left at Ephesus. With good reason, namely, that they should teach. …
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).