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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
"So that he might bring bound to Jerusalem any he found who were followers of this Way, both men and women." What does "followers of this Way" mean? Perhaps the believers called themselves this, since their faith alone was the one through which we ascend to heaven. …
Oecumenius
They called it the Way, the faith toward Christ our true God, which the apostles proclaimed; and rightly so. For through it we enter into the kingdom of the heavens, and not by any other. But in a truer sense one must hear the civic way, as in Isaiah: "Why have they deceived us from your way?" (Isa. 63:17) that is, the conduct according to you. Therefore here he called the Way the civic conduct according to Christ. …
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