Acts 19:15
But the wicked spirit, answering, said to them: Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Respondens autem spiritus nequam dixit eis : Jesum novi, et Paulum scio : vos autem qui estis ?
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- ἀποκριθὲν δὲ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ πονηρὸν εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· Τὸν Ἰησοῦν γινώσκω καὶ τὸν Παῦλον ἐπίσταμαι, ὑμεῖς δὲ τίνες ἐστέ;
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily XLI on Acts xix. 8, 9
( a ) See him in every place forcing his way into the synagogue, and in this manner departing thence. For in every place, he wished to have the occasion given him by them. ( c ) He wished to separate the disciples thence, and to have the beginning for ceasing to assemble with them, given by (the Jews) themselves. And it was not for nothing that he did this ( b ) which I have said. He was henceforth “provoking them to jealousy.” For both the Gentiles readily received him, and the Jews, upon the Gentiles receiving him, repented. …
St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily XLI on Acts xix. 8, 9
(Recapitulation.) ( b ) “And having entered in to the synagogue,” etc. ( v. 8 .) But why ἐπαρρησιάζετο ? It means, he was ready to confront dangers, and disputed more openly, not veiling the doctrines. ( a ) “But when some were hardened, and spake evil of the way, having departed from them, he separated the disciples.” ( v. 9 .) He put a stop, it means, to their evil-speaking: he did not wish to kindle their envy, nor to bring them into more contention. ( c ) Hence let us also learn not to put ourselves in the way of evil-speaking men, but to depart from them: he did not speak evil, when himself evil spoken of. “He disputed daily,” and by this gained the many, that, being evil intreated and (evil) spoken of, he did not (utterly) break away from them, and keep aloof. ( e ) The evil-speakers are defeated. …
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).