Acts 22:4
Who persecuted this way unto death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- qui hanc viam persecutus sum usque ad mortem, alligans et tradens in custodias viros ac mulieres,
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- ὃς ταύτην τὴν ὁδὸν ἐδίωξα ἄχρι θανάτου, δεσμεύων καὶ παραδιδοὺς εἰς φυλακὰς ἄνδρας τε καὶ γυναῖκας,
Haydock's commentary
This way. That is, the Christian faith, which now I profess. (Witham)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily XLVII on Acts xxi. 39, 40
Observe how, when he discourses to those that are without, he does not decline availing himself of the aids afforded by the laws. Here he awes the tribune by the name of his city. And again, elsewhere he said, “Openly, uncondemned, Romans as we are, they have cast us into prison.” ( ch. xix. 37 .) For since the tribune said, “Art thou that Egyptian?” he immediately drew him off from that surmise: then, that he may not be thought to deny his nation, he says at once, “I am a Jew:” he means his religion. ( b ) What then? he did not deny (that he was a Christian): God forbid: for he was both a Jew and a Christian, observing what things he ought: since indeed he, most of all men, did obey the law: ( a ) as in fact he elsewhere calls himself, “Under the law to Christ.” ( 1 Cor. ix. 21 .) What is this, I pray? ( c ) The man that believes in Christ. …
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).