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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
But look, I beg you, how their fleeing was providentially ordered, not from cowardice: otherwise they would have ceased to preach, and would not have exasperated them still more. But from this flight two things resulted: both the rage of those Jews was quenched, and the preaching spread. But in terms befitting their disorderly conduct, he says, "Agitating the multitude." Just what was done at Iconium - that they may have the additional condemnation of destroying others besides themselves. (ch. xiv. …
Western Saints
Cassiodorus
"And when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was also preached at Berea." When the Thessalonian Jews had knowledge that the apostles were preaching about Christ in Berea, they came there and stirred up the people with constant uproar, saying that they should beware of those men who threw the world into confusion with new preaching. Then the brethren saw fit to send Paul over to Athens, while keeping Silas and Timothy there for a time. …
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