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Acts 8:4

Eastern Fathers

John Chrysostom

"Therefore they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word." But I would have thee admire how even in a season of calamity they neglected not the preaching.

Homily on Acts 18 ↗

Western Saints

Bede

Therefore, those who were scattered went about evangelizing the word of God. For scattered, in Greek it is written as disseminated, that is, dispersed. For they were those of whom Isaiah spoke: All who see them will recognize them because they are the seed which the Lord has blessed, and about whom the Lord said in the parable of the Gospel: The good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom (Matthew XIII). …

Retractions on Acts ↗