Acts 7:54

When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
They were cut to the heart: exasperated even to rage and madness. See chap. v, ver. 33. gnashing their teeth with indignation. (Witham)

John Chrysostom

AD 407
See, once more, the wrong-doers in trouble. Just as the Jews are perplexed, saying, "What are we to do with these men?" so these also are "cut to the heart." (ch. iv. 16.) And yet it was he that had good right to be incensed, who, having done no wrong, was treated like a criminal, and was spitefully calumniated. But the calumniators had the worst of it in the end. So true is that saying, which I am ever repeating, "Ill to do, is ill to fare." And yet he (in his charges against them) resorted to no calumny, but proved (what he said). So sure are we, when we are shamefully borne down in a matter wherein we have a clear conscience, to be none the worse for it.--"If they desired," say you, "to kill him, how was it that they did not take occasion, out of what he said, that they might kill him?" They would fain have a fair-seeming plea to put upon their outrage. "Well then, was not the insulting them a fair plea?" It was not his doing, if they were insulted: it was the Prophet's accusation...

John Chrysostom

AD 407
See, once more, the wrong-doers in trouble. Just as the Jews are perplexed, saying, What are we to do with these men? so these also are cut to the heart. Acts 4:16 And yet it was he that had good right to be incensed, who, having done no wrong, was treated like a criminal, and was spitefully calumniated. But the calumniators had the worst of it in the end. So true is that saying, which I am ever repeating, Ill to do, is ill to fare. And yet he (in his charges against them) resorted to no calumny, but proved (what he said). So sure are we, when we are shamefully borne down in a matter wherein we have a clear conscience, to be none the worse for it.— If they desired, say you, to kill him, how was it that they did not take occasion, out of what he said, that they might kill him? They would fain have a fair-seeming plea to put upon their outrage. Well then, was not the insulting them a fair plea? It was not his doing, if they were insulted: it was the Prophet's accusation of them. And besi...

John Chrysostom

AD 407
When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. See, once more, the wrong-doers in trouble. Just as the Jews are perplexed, saying, What are we to do with these men? so these also are cut to the heart. Acts 4:16 And yet it was he that had good right to be incensed, who, having done no wrong, was treated like a criminal, and was spitefully calumniated. But the calumniators had the worst of it in the end. So true is that saying, which I am ever repeating, Ill to do, is ill to fare. And yet he (in his charges against them) resorted to no calumny, but proved (what he said). So sure are we, when we are shamefully borne down in a matter wherein we have a clear conscience, to be none the worse for it.— If they desired, say you, to kill him, how was it that they did not take occasion, out of what he said, that they might kill him? They would fain have a fair-seeming plea to put upon their outrage. Well then, was not the insulting them a fa...

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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