For I perceive that you are in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Words of exceeding wrath! But otherwise he did not punish him: that faith may not thereafter be of compulsion; that the matter may not seem to be carried ruthlessly; that he may introduce the subject of repentance: or also, because it suffices for correction to have convicted him, to have told him what was in his heart, to have brought him to confess himself overcome (ὅ τι ἐ& 128confession that he has done wrong. Observe him, what a miscreant he is; when he was convicted, then he believed: when again he was convicted, then he became humble. Seeing his miracles, [he was amazed, and came over.] He thought to be able to escape detection: he thought the thing was an art: but when he had not power to defeat (ἑ λεἵν) the Apostles, * * *. (b) Again, he fears the multitude, and is afraid to deny it; and yet he might have said, I did not know: I did it in simplicity: but he was struck with dismay first by the former circumstance, that he was overcome (ὅ τι ἐ& 128wayoff, to Rome, thinking the Apostle would not soon come there.
And they, when they had testified, and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem.
