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Acts 10:20

Eastern Fathers

Theophylact of Ohrid

For he was told: "Go with them, doubting nothing; for I have sent them." Great is the authority of the Spirit, because what God the Father does, the same does the Holy Spirit also. The angel said: "Your prayers and your alms" (v. 4), to show that he was sent from there; but the Spirit does not act this way, but says: "For I have sent them." Therefore, one must obey the Spirit.

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Western Saints

Bede

Rise therefore and go down, and go with them. He is commanded to go down from the roof and go to preach, that the Church may not only watch for the Lord by climbing high, but also may preach the same to the infirm and to those still placed outside, as it were, but knocking at the door of Simon, that is, obedience, by returning to the active life, as if rising from bed. According to what the Lord said: You will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man (John 1). …

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