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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"And as I began to speak," etc. Then why did not this happen alone? Of superabundance this is wrought by God, that it might be shown that the beginning too was not from the Apostle. But had he set out of his own motion, without any of these things having taken place, they would have been very much hurt: so that from the beginning he disposes their minds in his favor.
Theophylact of Ohrid
But he is not content even with what was said above, and recalls also the saying of the Lord: "You shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit." Nothing new happened, he says, but only what He had foretold. But, they will say, there was no need even to baptize; yet baptism was performed. And he does not say "I commanded them to be baptized," but shows that he did nothing new.
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