And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates tore off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
O the irrational conduct! They did not examine, did not allow them to speak. And yet, such a miracle having taken place, you ought to have worshipped them, ought to have held them as saviors and benefactors. For if money was what ye wished, why, having found so great wealth, did ye not run to it? This makes you more famous, the having power to cast out demons than the obeying them. Lo, even miracles, and yet love of money was mightier. (f) And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison.— great was their wrath— charging the jailer to keep them safely
