And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timothy abode there still.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Here now they send Paul alone: for it was for him they feared, lest he should suffer some harm, the head and front of all being in fact none other than he. (β) They sent him away, it says, as it were to the sea: that it might not be easy for them to seize him. For at present they could not have done much by themselves; and with him they accomplished and achieved many things. For the present, it says, they wished to rescue him. (α) So far is it from being the case, that (supernatural) Grace worked all alike on all occasions: on the contrary, it left them to take their measures upon human judgment, (only) stirring them up and rousing them out of sleep, and making them to take pains. Thus, observe, it brought them safe only as far as Philippi, but no more after that. And receiving, it says, a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed.
