Acts 24:3
We accept it always and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thanksgiving.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- semper et ubique suscipimus, optime Felix, cum omni gratiarum actione.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- πάντῃ τε καὶ πανταχοῦ ἀποδεχόμεθα, κράτιστε Φῆλιξ, μετὰ πάσης εὐχαριστίας.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily L on Acts xxiii. 31-33
Like some king whom his body-guards escort, so did these convey Paul; in such numbers too, and by night, for fear of the wrath of the people. Now then you will say that they have got him out of the city, they desist from their violence? No indeed. But (the tribune) would not have sent him off with such care for his safety, but that while he himself had found nothing amiss in him, he knew the murderous disposition of his adversaries. “And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia; I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come.” Already Lysias has spoken for his exculpation; (but the Jews seek to) gain the hearer beforehand. “And he ordered him to be kept in custody in Herod’s prætorium” ( v. 34, 35 ): again Paul is put in bonds. …
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).