Acts of the Apostles

"See, then, that there be no one who carries you off as spoil through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world and not according to Christ" — not all philosophy, but the Epicurean, which Paul also mentions in the Acts of the Apostles, slandering it as doing away with providence and deifying pleasure, and any other that has over-honoured …

And yet, having in the Gospels numbered Himself among the ignorant because of the weakness of the many, as I said, in the Acts of the Apostles, conversing privately with them as with perfect ones, He says, with Himself excepted, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set in His own authority.

[37] 6) The Acts of the Apostles 7:

a clear revelation of which was made to one of the Apostles, Acts x.

"Repent, therefore, and be converted, for the blotting out of your offences, that the times of refreshment may come upon you from the presence of God, and He may send the Christ foredesigned for you, whom the heavens must receive until the times of the restitution of all things which God has spoken by the mouth of His holy prophets.

It is written that once, when Peter—who was also called the chief of the apostles—was teaching the people, they were pricked to the heart, just as you are today;

If these sacraments of the figures displease you, at least the Acts of the Apostles have handed down to me this order of Paul's career, not to be denied by you either.

"Most High," inasmuch as he is exalted by the right hand of God, as Peter preaches in the Acts;

Therefore let these men, who have received another Paraclete in the apostles and through the apostles — whom, not having acknowledged him even in their own prophets, they no longer possess even in the apostles — come now, let them teach even from the apostolic instrument that the stains of the flesh besprinkled after baptism can be washed away by penitence.

Now therefore the letters of the apostles too are illustrious.

The fees to be paid were not small, Acts of the Apostles, 22, 28, and the new-made civis was regarded as a manumitted slave of the emperor, and was expected to remember the emperor in his will.

For Simon of Samaria too, in the Acts of the Apostles, the would-be purchaser of the Holy Spirit — after, being condemned by him, he had wept in vain over his destruction together with his money — turned to the assault of the truth, as if by way of solace for his revenge;

from which Aaron was anointed by Moses, whence Christ is named from the chrism, which is the anointing, which lent its name to the Lord, made spiritual, because he was anointed with the Spirit by God the Father, as it is in the Acts:

" Likewise Peter in the Acts of the Apostles:

The Holy Spirit was first poured out upon the assembled disciples at the third hour.