And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Do you mark the eagerness, the longing desire? But should any say he ought to have waited for Philip (to speak), (the answer is), he does not know what is the matter: he could not in the least tell what the other was going to say to him, but supposed merely that he was about to receive some (lesson of) prophecy. And moreover, this was more respectful, that he did not draw him into his chariot, but besought him. And Philip, we have read, ran to him, and heard him reading; even the fact of his running, showed that he wished to say (something). And the place, it says, of the Scripture which he read was this: As a sheep He was led to the slaughter.
